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au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_
immigration_detention_inspections_2019_.pdf>.
Ibid, 4.
Australian Border Force, Answers to Questions on
Notice, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and
Constitutional Affairs (Additional Estimates, 22 March
2021), AE21-358 <https://www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/
downloadestimatesquestions/EstimatesQuestionCommitteeId6-EstimatesRoundId10-PortfolioId20QuestionNumber358>.
Ibid.
See, for example, the conclusion reached by the
Commonwealth Ombudsman that ‘the design,
infrastructure and operations of hotels are not
suited for detention of people for longer than
4 weeks’ in Commonwealth Ombudsman, Monitoring
Commonwealth Places of Detention: Annual Report of
the Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism
under the Optional Report to the Convention Against
Torture (OPCAT), 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022, 23
<https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0022/290137/Commonwealth-NPM-Report.
pdf>.
Ibid 24, 26.
Ibid, Appendix A, 7.
NSW Ombudsman, 2020 hindsight: the first 12
months of the COVID-19 pandemic (22 March 2021),
16 <https://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0018/138204/2020-hindsight_the-first-12months-of-the-COVID-19_pandemic-Special-Report.
pdf>.
Queensland Human Rights Commission, Hotel
Quarantine: Unresolved complaints report under
section 88 Human Rights Act 2019 (15 October 2020),
[35] <https://www.qhrc.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0007/28699/2020.10.15-hotel-quarantineconditions-unresolved-complaint-report.pdf>.
Department of Health, National Review of Hotel
Quarantine (23 October 2020) 59 <https://
www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/
documents/2020/10/national-review-of-hotelquarantine.pdf>.
See [3.6] Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic
at 46–47.
See [3.2] (a) Accommodation at 22–23.
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Monitoring
Commonwealth Places of Detention: Annual Report of
the Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism
under the Optional Report to the Convention Against
Torture (OPCAT), 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022, 24
<https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0022/290137/Commonwealth-NPM-Report.
pdf>.
Nelson Mandela Rules, Rule 23 <https://documentsdds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/443/41/PDF/
N1544341.pdf?OpenElement>.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Human Right
Standards for Immigration Detention (2013) [17.1]
<https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/
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document/publication/HR_standards_immigration_
detention.pdf>.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Inspections of
Australia’s immigration detention facilities 2019 report
(December 2020), 85 <https://humanrights.gov.
au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_
immigration_detention_inspections_2019_.pdf>.
Australian Human Rights Commission Risk
management in immigration detention (2019), 50
<https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/
document/publication/ahrc_covid-19_immigration_
detention_2021.pdf>.
Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 256.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Human
Rights Standards for Immigration Detention (2013)
[10.1], [10.6] <https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/
default/files/document/publication/HR_standards_
immigration_detention.pdf>.
This included, for example, a requirement applying
at the time of our inspection visit to the Brisbane
APOD that all visitors must be fully vaccinated
against COVID-19.
The link provided to the list of facilities leads to this
page <https://www.abf.gov.au/about-us/what-we-do/
border-protection/immigration-detention/detentionfacilities> which was accessed on 14 January 2023.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Inspections
of Australia’s immigration detention facilities 2019
(December 2020), [3.7(e)] <https://humanrights.gov.
au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_
immigration_detention_inspections_2019_.pdf>.
Eden Gillespie and Arianna Lucente, ‘Asylum seekers
in Melbourne detention say they were served
“maggots and mould” for dinner’, SBS News (Online)
(29 December 2021) <https://www.sbs.com.au/news/
article/asylum-seekers-in-melbourne-detention-saythey-were-served-maggots-and-mould-for-dinner/
ghide58ou>.
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Monitoring
Commonwealth Places of Detention: Annual Report of
the Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism
under the Optional Report to the Convention Against
Torture (OPCAT), 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022, 25
<https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0022/290137/Commonwealth-NPM-Report.
pdf>.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights
Standards for Immigration Detention (2013) [12.1]
<https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/
document/publication/HR_standards_immigration_
detention.pdf>.
Department of Home Affairs, Detention Services
Manual – Safety and security management – Use of
force (Procedural Instruction) (10 October 2018)
<https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/foi/files/2020/fa200100011-document-released.PDF>.
Although we note here the concerns raised by
the Commonwealth Ombudsman with respect to
‘what appears to be the circumvention of processes