Hotel detention legal, but lacked ‘care and humanity’, judge says

Australian Government Solicitor 2023-07-06 10:27 pm By Gareth Baker | Sydney

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A federal court judge has slammed Australia’s use of makeshift hotel detention centres as lacking “ordinary human decency”, but ruled they are not illegal in the case of a Kurdish refugee who was held for 14 months in two Melbourne hotels.

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