The group released around Christmas will be re-detained due to a retrospective bill reimposing a stricter interpretation of the character test
The Greens’ immigration spokesperson, Nick McKim, accused the government of trying to “circumvent” the court decision that “mandatory visa cancellations [are] only imposed for the most serious offences and not for aggregate offences”.“was a much-needed step towards a fair and just immigration system that recognises the importance of individual circumstances”.
Watt told the Senate the bill “is about keeping Australians safe” by “clarifying something … that has been a well-understood bipartisan principle, underpinning Australian migration law, for a very long period of time”. Hannah Dickinson, the principal solicitor at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said “to release and then re-detain roughly 100 people in the space of weeks is abhorrently cruel, and will devastate those people and their families”.
“It is time to stop the creep of these powers and reckon with their consequences, rather than patch them up and destroy the lives of 100 people recently released from detention.”
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