The Refugee Legal executive director, David Manne, who acted for the plaintiff YBFZ on Wednesday, was reluctant to forewarn of further legal challenges. But he described the new bill as “an offshore warehousing regime” and an “act of consciously calculated cruelty”.
Peter Dutton claimed the government’s response was “not enough”, signalling the Coalition would seek to make migration and border security a major issue at the 2025 federal election.
He said migration issues “were very real” in the US election, “and I think they’re going to be real in the upcoming [federal] election.”