This week the government rushed through legislation placing tough restrictions on more than 80 people who have now been released from indefinite immigration detention.

Those detainees were released after the High Court last week upended two decades of immigration law, ruling that the indefinite immigration detention of non-citizens who can’t be deported was illegal.

Debate around indefinite immigration detention flared as a broader debate about migration continued, amid concerns a record level of immigration was adding pressure to inflation and housing in Australia.

Today chief political correspondent David Crowe and national affairs editor James Massola on the fallout from the high court decision and the broader conversation about migration in this country.

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