Use of immigration detention needs to be dramatically curtailed

It has become a political tool, a convenient proxy for dealing with issues that should be dealt with in other parts of government and a vehicle for delivery of immense cruelty.

• Peter Hughes
• Pearls and Irritations

There was a certain inevitability that the High Court would eventually stop governments from misusing it.

It really should not be a major surprise that the High Court has finally struck down use of immigration law to authorise indefinite detention.

Decades ago, immigration detention had a remarkably simple purpose – to briefly hold on to people who…

• Use of immigration…