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Challenge to ASIO on refugees

Sydney : Australia | May 23, 2012 at 7:14 AM PDT
Source: The Age
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Lawyers for the refugees will argue that the court is not bound by a precedent set in a landmark 2004 ruling, in which the government's right to hold asylum seekers indefinitely was upheld by a 4-3 majority. They will argue that the case, brought by a stateless Palestinian, did not involve someone found... FULL ARTICLE AT The Age
 
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