Secret ‘Enhanced Screening’ of Asylum Seekers

Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 5AA.

‘Australia Accused of Steering People Away from Seeking Asylum’, ABC Radio Australia, 19 April 2013 <http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/australia-accused-of-steering-people-away-from-seeking-asylum/1119120>.

Burke M P Tony , Minister for Immigration, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, Media Release, 14 June 2013 http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/bo/2013/bo204450.htm.

Rejali Darius , Torture and Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Ibid 9.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 28 May 2013, 33.

Ibid 34.

Ibid 17.

Ibid 17 and 18.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 29 May 2013, 50 (Gillian Triggs).

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 28 May 2013, 43 (Ms Parker).

There is a wealth of literature on democratic deliberation. However, for the purposes of this article, see Young Iris Marion , Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Ibid 172.

Ibid 173.

Machiavelli Niccolo , The Prince (1515).

Rodrigues Mark , ‘Cabinet Confdentiality’, Politics and Administration Section, Parliamentary Library, Background Note, 28 May 2010; Encel Solomon , Cabinet Government in Australia (MUP, 1962).

Rejali , above n 4, 10.

On the idea that desires and narratives can conflict, see Koskenniemi Martti , From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Rejali , above n 4, 3.

Ibid.

On democratic deliberation, see Young , above n 12.

Ibid 168.

Applicant M38/2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2003] HCATrans 523 (12 December 2003) 8.

Arendt Hannah , Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin, 1963).

Rogalla Barbara , ‘Modern Day Torture: Government-sponsored Neglect of Asylum Seeker Children under the Australian Mandatory Immigration Detention Regime’ (2003) 7(1) Journal of South Pacific Law 2.

On the difficult and wide ranging issues to be taken into account in the context of asylum seekers, see generally McMaster Don , Asylum-seekers and the Insecurity of a Nation’ (2002) 56(2) Australian Journal of International Affairs 279, 288–289; Budz Michele , A Heterotopian Analysis of Maritime Refugee Incidents’ (2009) 3(1) International Political Sociology 18, 19.

Euben J Peter , ‘The Butler Did It’ in Grant Ruth W , (ed), Naming Evil, Judging Evil (University of Chicago Press, 2008) 103, 107 (emphasis added).