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december-2022/how-many-people-are-detained-orreturned>.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Inspections
of Australia’s immigration detention facilities 2019
Report (December 2020), 134 <https://humanrights.
gov.au/our-work/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/
publications/inspections-australias-immigrationdetention>; Australian Human Rights Commission,
The Use of Hotels as Alternative Places of Detention
(June 2023), 18–19 <https://humanrights.gov.au/
hotel_apods_2023>.
See, eg, Zachary Steel et al, ‘Psychiatric Status
of Asylum Seeker Families Held for a Protracted
Period in a Remote Detention Centre in Australia’
(2004) 28(2) Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Public Health 23; M von Werthern et al, ‘The
Impact of Immigration Detention on Mental Health:
A systematic Review’ (2018) 18(1) BMC Psychiatry 382.
Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
Immigration Detention Statistics Summary (30 June
2023), 3, 9 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/
research-and-stats/files/immigration-detentionstatistics-june2013.pdf>; Department of Immigration
and Border Protection, Immigration Detention and
Community Statistics Summary (30 June 2014), 3,
10 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-andstats/files/immigration-detention-statistics-june2014.
pdf>; Department of Immigration and Border
Protection, Immigration Detention and Community
Statistics Summary (30 June 2015), 4, 11 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/
files/immigration-detention-statistics-june2015.
pdf>; Department of Immigration and Border
Protection, Immigration Detention and Community
Statistics Summary (30 June 2016), 4, 11 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-30-june-2016.
pdf>; Department of Immigration and Border
Protection, Immigration Detention and Community
Statistics Summary (30 June 2017), 4, 11 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-30-june-2017.pdf>;
Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention
and Community Statistics Summary (30 June 2018), 4,
11 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-andstats/files/immigration-detention-statistics-june-18.
pdf>; Department of Home Affairs, Immigration
Detention and Community Statistics Summary
(30 June 2019), 4, 11 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.
au/research-and-stats/files/immigration-detentionstatistics-30-june-2019.pdf>; Department of Home
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Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community
Statistics Summary (30 June 2020), 4, 11 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-30-june-2020.pdf>;
Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention
and Community Statistics Summary (30 June 2021),
4, 12 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/researchand-stats/files/immigration-detention-statistics30-june-2021.pdf>; Department of Home Affairs,
Immigration Detention and Community Statistics
Summary June 2022 (14 October 2022), 4, 12 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-30-june-2022.pdf>.
Migration Amendment (Character and General Visa
Cancellation) Act 2014 (Cth).
Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 501(3A).
Australian Border Force, Detainees in Held
Detention due to s501Cancellation (2016) <https://
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Commonwealth Ombudsman, The Administration
of Section 501 of the Migration Act 1958, (December
2016), 22 <https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/
assets/pdf_file/0036/286479/20181107-Amendedsection-501-own-motion-report.pdf>.
58.5% in January 2023, see Department of Home
Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community
Statistics Summary January 2023 (3 March 2023),
8 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-andstats/files/immigration-detention-statistics-31january-2023.pdf>; 58.8% in February 2023, see
Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention
and Community Statistics Summary February 2023
(29 March 2023), 8 <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.
au/research-and-stats/files/immigration-detentionstatistics-28-february-2023.pdf>; 61.7% in March
2023, see Department of Home Affairs, Immigration
Detention and Community Statistics Summary March
2023 (5 May 2023), 8 <https://www.homeaffairs.
gov.au/research-and-stats/files/immigrationdetention-statistics-31-march-2023.pdf>; 62.2%
in April 2023, see Department of Home Affairs,
Immigration Detention and Community Statistics
Summary April 2023 (30 May 2023), 8 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-30-april-2023.pdf>;
69.8% in May 2023, see Department of Home Affairs,
Immigration Detention and Community Statistics
Summary May 2023 (25 July 2023), 8 <https://
www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/
immigration-detention-statistics-31-may-2023.pdf>;