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33 Ibid.
34 Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community Statistics Summary June 2024 (31 July
2024), 4. <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/immigration-detention-communitystatistics-summary-30-june-2024.pdf>.
35 Ibid.
36 Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community Statistics Summary 31 January 2023 (3
March 2023), 12. <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/immigration-detention-statistics31-january-2023.pdf>.
37 Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community Statistics Summary June 2024 (31 July
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38 Ibid.
39 Canada Border Services Agency, Annual detention statistics: 2012 to 2024 (30 May 2024). <https://www.cbsaasfc.gc.ca/security-securite/detent/stat-2012-2024-eng.html>.
40 Ibid.
41 UK Home Office, National statistics How many people are detained or returned? (13 June 2024). <https://www.
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42 See for example Zachary Steel et al, ‘Psychiatric Status of Asylum Seeker Families Held for a Protracted Period
in a Remote Detention Centre in Australia’ 28(2) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 23
(2004); M von Werthern et al, ‘The Impact of Immigration Detention on Mental Health: A systematic Review’
(2018) 18(1) BMC Psychiatry 382.
43 Australian Human Rights Commission, Inspections of Australia’s immigration detention facilities 2019 Report
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inspections-australias-immigration-detention>; Australian Human Rights Commission, The Use of Hotels as
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44 Data derived from information provided to the Commission by the Department during the course of the
thematic inspection.
45 Commonwealth Ombudsman. Access All Areas: Monitoring Places of Detention 2022-23 6th Report of the
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