Published: February 16, 2020
Non-redacted documents of briefing between Peter Dutton and Sri Lankan authorities should be given to family’s lawyer, judge says
The federal government has provided heavily redacted documents to lawyers representing a Tamil family detained on Christmas Island, entirely blacking-out details of discussions between Australian and Sri Lankan authorities on the matter.
In a pre-hearing before Melbourne’s federal court on Monday, lawyers representing the family, known as the Bileola family after the Queensland town where they had been living, said they had also been given a redacted document about a ministry briefing between the immigration minister Peter Dutton and the department secretary.
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