NZYQ v Minister for Immigration

It started with immigration detention.

After an earlier High Court decision, known as NZYQ, about 150 people were released from detention.

The court had said the government couldn't keep someone detained indefinitely if there was no real chance of removing them from Australia in the reasonably foreseeable future.

But the government said it was concerned about community safety.

In the past year, there were around a hundred asylum seekers held in Nauru, Nauru, and this equated to us spending around nine million dollars per person.

We paid an initial four hundred million dollars last year when it signed a new deal to take on the NZYQ cohort of asylum seekers, and we'll give it a further seventy million dollars annually for the next three decades.

That's a total of two point five billion dollars in that deal.

But meanwhile, detainees in Nauru report that they can't afford to buy enough food or access clean drinking water, you know, while they're waiting for their asylum seem... claims to be processed, which they may never be processed.