The Federal Court is deciding whether the Commonwealth acted unlawfully by using two Melbourne hotels to detain refugees, asylum seekers, visa overstayers - and tennis great Novak Djokovic | _Biancah
The Park Hotel in Swanston Street made international headlines in January when Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovicafter his visa was cancelled during the Australian Open over a COVID-19 vaccination stoush with the government.
Azimitabar, who arrived at Christmas Island on July 25, 2013 – six days after Rudd’s decree took effect – was rushed to Australia for emergency medical treatment on November 11, 2019, after being detained in Papua New Guinea at Australia’s behest for more than six years.Chris Hopkins / Getty Azimitabar’s legal team argues the immigration minister did not have the power to approve the hotels being used as detention facilities.If that argument does not persuade the court, they will argue that if the minister does have the power to approve hotels being used as detention facilities, the approval was not given lawfully because former minister David Coleman and former acting minister Alan Tudge delegated those approvals to department officials.
“They did this because that’s what they wanted to do ... instead of having [detainees] in the community and being able to attend medical appointments as they needed for their health reasons, they [the government] wanted to have an element of punishment. They did it because they wanted to, not because it was reasonable ... There [were] many other options that they could exercise.”
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