The High Court of Australia, in its wisdom, decided some weeks back in its NZYQ case, that illegals held in indefinite detention, may who have committed serious crimes, and who cannot be deported, must be released into the community. The decision did not, contrary to speculation, order that the keys to the city be handed to the illegals, just the freedom to walk the streets, be they former criminals or not.
Now, the lower courts are following precedent, and court authority, and the Federal Court has just released an Iranian asylum-seeker who had been held in detention for a decade, known as “Ned Kelly Emeralds.” Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said: “The government’s lawyer told the court on 23 November that the plaintiff was seeking to ‘ride on the coat-tails of the recent order’ of the High Court,” he said. “There is now a real and live risk that this is beginning to undermine our border protection regime. There is a real risk that more people in detention will be released.”