A week after last November’s High Court decision, ruling against indefinite immigration detention, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil was, in the words of refugee advocate Alison Battisson, trying to “out-Dutton Dutton”.
It’s a fair description, because that’s pretty much how O’Neil described the government’s efforts in parliament.
“The leader of the opposition loves to present himself as a tough guy on borders,” O’Neil said at the end of last year. “He never wrote laws as tough as this.”
Labor is settling asylum cases to avoid High Court actions. By Mike Seccombe , The Saturday Paper