Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will urgently introduce new laws aimed at restoring ankle bracelets and curfews for former ...

The federal government is scrambling to rush legislation into parliament and draw up new regulations circumventing a High Court ruling that forcing immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets ...

In a five to two ruling today, the High Court found a law requiring former immigration detainees to be monitored by ankle bracelets and live under a curfew was not valid. The law was introduced ...

After last year’s High Court ruling in the case known as NZYQ, the government was caught flat footed and released people from immigration detention with inadequate oversight. It paid a terrible ...

While Mr Burke wouldn’t confirm how many BVR holders were currently subject to ankle bracelets and curfews, he said the government’s priority was to remove the offenders from Australia.

Ankle bracelets and curfews on former immigration detainees will be stripped, with Australia's highest court ruling them invalid. Addedan hour ago A Middle Eastern restaurant in Brisbane's West ...

Forcing former detainees to wear ankle bracelets might be legally fraught as Australia looks to pay third countries to take those deemed a risk to community safety. Immigration Minister Tony Burke has ...

Forcing former detainees to wear ankle bracelets might be legally fraught as Australia looks to pay third countries to take those deemed a risk to community safety.