Australia’s powers to detain terrorist offenders after jail term without rehabilitation under review

Australia’s security monitor says object of the law is to protect community from terrorist threats but ‘seemingly quite deliberately does not include rehabilitation or reintegration of the offender into the community’. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

Australia’s national security monitor has said it is “odd” that powers to detain terrorist offenders after their sentence expires do not include consideration of rehabilitation.

Grant Donaldson, the national security legislation monitor, made the comments at the start of an inquiry hearing about continuing detention orders on Tuesday.