Dr Ghezelbash (Deputy Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW ) says international precedents show Australia can protect the community without resorting to indefinite detention.
"The principles at play here - they go beyond an individual case, and go beyond the immigration detention context. I think it's general principles of justice we should all hold dear. One of them being that, no one should be able to be detained indefinitely, regardless of their visa status, at the whim of the government."