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Commission commends High Court ruling on indefinite immigration detention
Asylum Seekers and RefugeesThursday 9 November, 2023
The Australian Human Rights Commission has welcomed yesterday’s High Court ruling which determined that Australia’s system of indefinite immigration detention is unlawful.
The landmark decision overturns almost two decades of the practice by Australian authorities in finding it is unlawful to hold a person in immigration detention when there is no real prospect of them