Doubts over legal regime to redetain those released from Australian immigration detention, FoI documents reveal
Exclusive: Meeting minutes show that without any offending by those released, it is hard to ‘illustrate that they pose an ongoing risk’
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Officials responsible for a regime to redetain people released from immigration detention have cast doubt on its effectiveness, warning the minimum nine-month timeframe to put cases together could make it harder for the government to win.
“In the absence of any offending, [it is] hard to illustrate that they pose an ongoing risk – so the longer it takes it weakens [the applicants’] case,” officials said, according to minutes of a January meeting discussing the operation of the scheme, passed after the high court’s ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful.
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