Judges will gain the power to cancel the Australian citizenship of some serious offenders and to preventively detain some non-citizens released by the high court ruling on indefinite detention, due to two government bills passing in the final week of parliament.
On Wednesday the immigration minister, Andrew Giles, declared he had begun preparations to ensure he was “ready to go” once the new regime was enacted allowing him to apply to state supreme courts to re-detain serious offenders who could not be deported.
