Last month, the High Court overturned a controversial 2004 decision, reaffirming the principle that asylum seekers cannot be detained indefinitely without prospects of deportation. By Frank Brennan
The court challenge underscores the readiness of the ruling political establishment to override even the extremely limited protections of legal and democratic rights in the 1901 Constitution.
This saga sheds further light on how far the political and judicial establishment has gone in blatantly violating even the most limited protections of legal rights contained in Australia’s reactionary 1901 Constitution.