‘None’ of 81 people released from immigration detention arrived during Albanese government, Labor says

Andrew Giles said he believed those whose visas were cancelled ‘should not continue to remain in Australia’ but ‘of course the circumstances here are that we have not been able to remove them’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Labor has hit back at the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, for politicising the high court’s ruling on indefinite detention, arguing that “none” of the 81 people released so far arrived on the Albanese government’s watch.

On Tuesday Dutton claimed the government should not have released people from immigration detention on the basis there was “another” – unspecified – “option available” to prevent their release and still comply with the court ruling.