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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty, Daniel Hurst and Paul Karp

Australian government urged to ‘stop playing with people’s lives’ as people returned to detention

Zoe Daniel
The independent MP Zoe Daniel says she is concerned ‘people with a series of low-level offences’ will be ‘caught up’ in the approach ‘designed to protect the community from serious offenders’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Lawyers have called on the Australian government to “stop playing with people’s lives” as it moves to re-detain dozens of people who were released from immigration detention over Christmas.

About 160 people had been released from detention due to a full federal court case ruling that aggregate sentences do not count for the purposes of the Migration Act’s automatic visa-cancellation provisions.

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