ADVOCATES AND EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON HIGH COURT DECISION:
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* "The government is going to be quite relieved ... but the longer you detain people, the more likely they are to suffer from mental health problems and the more likely they are to really find it difficult to co-operate with their removal." - Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny, refugee law expert at Murdoch University
* "This court case is the consequence of our failed protection system which has been eroded over the past decade resulting in a system that is stacked against people seeking asylum and results in unfair refugee determinations." - Jana Favero, head of systemic change at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
* "This decision will allow the Albanese government to continue using indefinite detention to try to coerce people to return to danger." - Sanmati Verma, legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre
* "This finding that detention is lawful where a person seeking asylum is not co-operating in their own deportation demonstrates the already extremely concerning punitive nature of the Migration Act." - Associate Professor Caroline Fleay, Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University.
* "There are many people in immigration detention who, while the courts have found they would not face persecution or harm on return, would be sent back to a situation where they believe they may be harmed. They legitimately fear that return." - Greg Barns SC, spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
Australian Associated Press
