Senate debates

Thursday, 16 November 2023

Bills

Migration Amendment (Bridging Visa Conditions) Bill 2023; In Committee

7:11 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Just to be clear, it's 84 in total, including the plaintiff, but the reason that those additional 83 people have been released is that their factual circumstances meet, if you like, the test that the High Court set, which was that they were noncitizens for whom there is no real prospect of removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future and who are therefore not capable of being subject to immigration detention.

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