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See reports from previous inspections of immigration detention facilities on the Commission’s
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Australian Human Rights Commission, Risk Management in Immigration Detention (Report, 2019)
68.
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Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Parliament of Australia, Ninth Report of 2013:
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Act 2012 and
other related legislation, 19 June 2013
<https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_Rights/Scrutiny_re
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<https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutiona
l_Affairs/Manus_Island/Report>; Australian Human Rights Commission, Ms BK, Ms CO and Mr DE
on behalf of themselves and their families v Commonwealth (Department of Home Affairs) [2018]
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young children who arrived in Australia seeking asylum <https://humanrights.gov.au/ourwork/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/publications/ms-bk-ms-co-and-mr-de-behalf-themselvesand-their?_ga=2.206346131.1094768931.1664690386-1551756871.1605493616>.
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Karen Andrews MP and Westly Nukundj MP, ‘Finalisation of the Regional Resettlement
Arrangement’ (Media Release, 6 October 2021)
<https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/KarenAndrews/Pages/finalisation-of-the-regionalresettlement-arrangement.aspx>.
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Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Additional Budget Estimates
(Question on Notice No. 147, AE22-147, 14 February 2022).
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Department of Home Affairs, Statistics of transitory persons In Nauru and PNG (30 June 2022) <
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us-subsite/files/population-number-resettled-30-june2022.pdf>
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Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment. Ninth annual report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Annex: Compilation of advice provided
by the Subcommittee in response to requests from national preventive mechanisms (22 March
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See, eg, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime et al, ‘UNODC, WHO, UNAIDS and OHCHR
joint statement on COVID-19 in prisons and other closed settings’ (Joint Statement, 13 May
2020) <https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-05-2020-unodc-who-unaids-and-ohchr-jointstatement-on-covid-19-in-prisons-and-other-closed-settings>; United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime, COVID-19 preparedness and responses in prisons (Position Paper, 31 March 2020)
<https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/UNODC_Position_paper_COVID19_in_prisons.pdf>.
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Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, Advice of the Subcommittee to State parties and national preventive mechanisms
relating to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic), UN Doc CAT/OP/10 (7 April 2020,
adopted 25 March 2020) <https://undocs.org/CAT/OP/10>.
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Department of Home Affairs, ‘Immigration detention’, Visa statistics (Webpage, 9 December
2020) <https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visastatistics/live/immigration-detention> ;GOV.UK, ‘Immigration detention’, Returns and detention
datasets, (Statistical dataset, 26 November 2020) <https://www.gov.uk/government/statisticaldata-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets> ; ‘COVID-19 Measures at Immigration Holding
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