Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is vowing to introduce legislation, amid pressure from the Opposition.
The Australian government is planning to introduce a constitutional preventative detention regime to get the “dangerous offenders” who were released from immigration detention off the streets.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said parliament will not be going home until the new measures are adopted.
The vow comes amid political pressure from the Opposition, after 141 detainees were released into the community following a landmark High Court decision overturning a 20 year precedent.
This ruling left the door open for the detention of the individual on another statutory basis, such as a law providing for preventative detention of a child sex offender who poses a risk of reoffending if released from custody.
Ms. O’Neil said the “the job now for the Parliament is to create a preventative detention regime that is constitutional.”
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