The Albanese government will enact preventive detention laws to redetain people released as a result of the high court ruling on indefinite immigration detention, after the court appeared to endorse the legality of such a regime for non-citizens convicted of serious crimes.
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, revealed Labor’s intention to “finalise a tough preventive detention regime before parliament rises” less than three hours after the court published its legal reasons in the case of NZYQ.