Bill
Migration Amendment (Limits on Immigration Detention) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28.
- Sponsor
- Kylea Tink
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-08-19
- second reading — 2024-08-19
- other — 2025-03-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-08-19.
The bill would change the Migration Act 1958 to better meet human rights standards on immigration detention.
It would cap most detention at 90 days, extendable only when the Minister judges the extension is a last resort, reasonable and proportionate under international law.
Detention of minors would be banned entirely.
- Introduces a 90-day limit on immigration detention.
- Allows the Minister to extend detention beyond 90 days under strict conditions.
- Prohibits the detention of minors.
- Makes any detention extension reviewable by the Administrative Review Tribunal.
Non-citizens in Australia without a valid visa and minors who would otherwise be detained.
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