A man labelled a 'risk to security' by Australia's internal spy agency will be flown from Melbourne to a detention centre in WA to keep him safe from the pandemic. 9News
A man labelled a "risk to security" by Australia's internal spy agency will be flown from coronavirus-crippled Melbourne to a detention centre in Western Australia to keep him safe from the pandemic.
But the court rejected his application for an injunction against the Australian Border Force and Police Commissioner Chris Dawson, who gave the Commonwealth an exemption to transfer the detainee to WA. "When contrasting the present respective Victorian and Western Australian positions in terms of a community exposure spread risk and thus, a threat of contracting COVID-19 by a vulnerable person, it must be said that for the present, as a location, Western Australia is now perhaps one of the safest places in the world to be," Justice Martin found.
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