Madeline Gleeson

Madeline Gleeson is a lawyer and research associate at the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales. She is also the author of Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru, available now [https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/nauru-and-manus/] from NewSouth Books.

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Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus Island

Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus Island

On 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled that the detention of asylum seeker and refugee men at the Manus Island ‘regional processing centre’ (MIRPC) was unconstitutional, illegal, and should end ...