Laws designed to put certain migrants behind bars if they are deemed to threaten community safety have effectively failed, the immigration minister has conceded.
Tony Burke said the bar in the legislation, which was altered after a High Court case, was too high for anybody to have met.
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The government passed another law last year allowing Australia to pay other countries to take members of the NZYQ cohort, a law the High Court is now testing after the government paid Nauru to accept three of them.
Preventative detention laws for migrants have failed, Tony Burke concedes. By Tom Crowley, ABC News