While their motivations are different, the opposition parties have the numbers to force an inquiry – and prolong the fallout from the high court decision.
… the bipartisan lock-step against some form of inquiry into detention could be about to be broken by the high court’s ruling this month that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful.
Suddenly the political dynamic is very different because the Albanese government is being attacked from left and right about its preparation for the decision and handling of the aftermath.
The Coalition has peppered Labor with questions about why conditions weren’t placed on visas from the moment 92 people in addition to the plaintiff were released; why legislation took a bit over a week to be presented and pass parliament; and why an even more draconian preventive detention regime wasn’t implemented.
The Greens come at the issue from a different perspective: human rights and trying to put a stop to the practice of indefinite detention altogether.