A Victorian Supreme Court judge is set to rule on Tuesday whether Abdul Nacer Benbrika will be subject to an extended supervision order on his release this month.
Coalition MPs were almost salivating when they entered parliament on Wednesday night as Labor rammed home its preventative detention laws.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused the government of failing to prepare for the High Court ruling and called for an apology for the release of known criminals.
Opposition frontbencher Dan Tehan called Labor “gutless” for shutting down debate on the issue,which has dominated Canberra since the High Court ruling on indefinite immigration detention.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said he would"not be apologising for upholding the law".
The attorney-general spoke after a reporter asked if the government owed an apology to those affected by reoffending of three people released from immigration detention.
A powerful parliamentary committee has asked the attorney-general to examine the treatment of undercover police.
The new laws will allow judges to decide if criminals released from immigration detention still pose a risk to the community and should be locked up again.
Doctors who give voluntary assisted dying information over the phone,email or telehealth are at risk of prosecution,after the Federal Court ruled that voluntary assisted dying is considered suicide under the Commonwealth criminal code.
Australians will be banned from making the Nazi salute in public after the federal government came under pressure from the opposition and Jewish groups.
Journalists will not be prosecuted for breaching certain secrecy laws without the intervention of the Attorney-General,as part of a legal overhaul that will see criminal liability stripped from almost a fifth of Commonwealth of secrecy offences.