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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

Australia proposes new laws to detain potentially dangerous migrants who can't be deported

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That Australian government on Wednesday proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the 141 migrants who have been set free in the three weeks since the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unconstitutional.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said Parliament would not meet for the year as scheduled next week unless new laws were enacted to allow potentially dangerous migrants to be detained.

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