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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Australia to immediately begin releasing people held in indefinite immigration detention

Exterior of the high court in Canberra
Lawyers for those held in indefinite detention by the Australian government have demanded they be released. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from indefinite detention after receiving a flurry of demands from long-term detainees to be set free due to Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling.

On Thursday the director of Human Rights for All, Alison Battisson, said the government was wrong to claim it needed to wait for the full reasons for the court’s decision, and could be liable to pay compensation for failing to immediately release people who it is not possible to deport.

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