Another 45 people released due to high court ruling on indefinite immigration detention

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A further 45 people have been released as a result of the high court’s decision on indefinite immigration detention and four others previously set free have allegedly breached their visa conditions.

The Albanese government is hoping the latest releases will be the last until the court delivers its full reasons for its landmark NZYQ decision which found that indefinite immigration detention was unlawful.

On Monday, the government tried to get on the front foot on immigration detention, announcing a $255m package to respond to releases and new legislation to criminalise breach of conditions including approaching schools, childcare or daycare centres, working with minors or contacting victims or their families.

Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday that the first package, which includes mandatory ankle bracelets and curfews unless the minister judges the person poses no risk to the community, had been challenged on the basis they were “punitive”.

The Australian Border Force commissioner, Michael Outram, said that of the 138 people released as a result of the high court’s NZYQ decision some 132 have already had electronic monitoring ankle bracelets applied.

O’Neil said the effect of the high court’s decision was that the government must release people for whom it was not “reasonably possible for us to move them to another country and someone who is in immigration detention under the same sort of circumstances as NZYQ”.

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