Exclusive: Meeting minutes show that without any offending by those released, it is hard to ‘illustrate that they pose an ongoing risk’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOfficials responsible for a regime to redetain people released from immigration detention have cast doubt on its effectiveness, warning the minimum nine-month timeframe to put cases together could make it harder for the government to win.“In the absence of any offending, [it is] hard to illustrate that they pose an ongoing risk – so the longer it takes it weakens [the applicants’] case,” officials said, according to minutes of a January meeting discussing the operation of the scheme, passed after the high court’s ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
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