Detention Release: What’s next?

Coiled barbed wire fence attached to mesh fence in Melbourne, Victoria. (Getty).

Coiled barbed wire fence attached to mesh fence in Melbourne, Victoria. (Getty). Source: Moment RF / Nina Pearman/Getty Images

Legal experts, pyschiatrists and refugee advocates are celebrating a High Court decision which has found indefinite immigration to be illegal.


The decision overturns a nearly 20 year-old precedent which allowed unsuccessful asylum seekers to be held with no release date.

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