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

Coalition and Greens unite to demand Labor release legal advice on indefinite detention court case

Clare O'Neil in the lower house of parliament
Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil is facing calls from the Greens and the Coalition to release the legal advice saying the government would ‘likely’ win a court challenge on indefinite immigration detention. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Coalition and the Greens have demanded that the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, release the government’s legal advice on indefinite detention, with the opposition claiming she may have already revealed its contents publicly.

The push from James Paterson and Nick McKim to see legal advice the minister claimed showed the government was “likely” to win a high court challenge comes as new conditions on those released as a result of the decision face their first legal test.

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