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

Labor to enact ‘preventive detention’ regime after high court reveals reasons for immigration ruling

Clare O’Neil
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says the government will ‘finalise a tough preventative detention regime before parliament rises’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

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.

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