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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes and no. We still have mandatory detention. Children are not supposed to be detained, but they are. We still have the concept of habeas corpus, yes.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. I should explain that Australia does not have a bill of rights. Our constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus in that sense. In fact, we have one of the only high courts in the world that has ruled that it is permissible to detain non-citizens for the term of their natur
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Our Human Rights Commission stands very strongly against the practices we in Australia have engaged in. I think I would be safe to say it would agree with most of the comments I've made today.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Mary Crock
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee There are international laws and the laws of the land, the charters.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Detentions are forbidden. Detaining a person has to be justified. This is terrible.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, that's right.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee There are so many stories like that in Australia. Very young children have been damaged, permanently perhaps, because of detention and being separated from their parents. A great deal of literature has been written about that.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Could I just say very quickly—
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Good afternoon.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Could you repeat the question?
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee It is difficult to answer that question in a few seconds. I will simply say that mandatory detention led to wrongful imprisonment and, as a result, to riots. For example, racial riots were very much world news when they arose and they were the same groups of people. I apologize
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, it is. You can see the number of asylum seekers and irregular immigrants.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, the costs were huge, unprecedented, right from the beginning.
May 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
Mary Crock