Health
Court delays bid to move man from immigration detention in Melbourne to WA – The Guardian
The federal government wants to transfer the 68-year-old – who has diabetes – amid concerns he is at risk of contracting Covid-19
A man remains in limbo in Melbourne immigration detention amid a legal stoush about moving him to Western Australia because of Covid-19.
The federal court previously ruled the 68-year-old who has diabetes could no longer be held at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre at Broadmeadows because he was at risk of contracting coronavirus.
The federal government decided to move him on Thursday to Western Australias Yongah Hill immigration detention centre.
But Justice Bernard Murp…
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