How would Labor’s preventive detention regime work for people released after high court ruling?

Under proposed scheme, an application could be made about a person convicted of a serious violent or sexual offence punishable by seven or more years in prison. But is it legal?

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The Albanese government is introducing amendments to allow courts to order the detention of some people released as a result of the high court’s ruling on indefinite immigration detention.

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