Mandatory detention

Immigration Detention in Australia: Turning Arbitrary Detention into a Global Brand

By Global Detention Project on 22 February 2022

Australia’s migration detention system is uniquely severe, arbitrary, and punitive. It includes a range of extreme and controversial policies–mandatory, indefinite, offshore, fully privatised detention–which are given blanket legal cover, are vigorously defended in the face of growing global opprobrium, and are spreading to countries near and far. […]

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