The Commonwealth has been dealt a major blow after the High Court ruled it unconstitutional to require former immigration ...

A senior officer at the nation’s beleaguered Aboriginal legal service has been arrested after she was ­allegedly found in bed ...

The young offender allegedly found in a hotel bed with a parole officer appointed to him by the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency was subject to emotional and physical abuse as a child, began ...

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In a five to two ruling today, the High Court found a law requiring former immigration detainees to be monitored by ankle bracelets and live under a curfew was not valid. The law was introduced ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will urgently introduce new laws aimed at restoring ankle bracelets and curfews for former ...

The federal government is scrambling to rush legislation into parliament and draw up new regulations circumventing a High Court ruling that forcing immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets ...

Ankle bracelets and curfews on former immigration detainees will be stripped, with Australia's highest court ruling them invalid. The measures stemmed from a High Court decision that ruled ...

The new rules will introduce a new “community protection test” which will allow the minister to re-implement the use of ankle monitors ... monitoring bracelets. Picture: NewsWire / Dylan ...