Turning now to the opposition’s immigration spokesman Dan Tehan, who responded to the High Court ruling to dismiss a bisexual Iranian man’s bid to be released from immigration detention, who claimed he was being unlawfully held.

The challenge from the Iranian man - given the pseudonym ASF17 - was regarded as a legal sequel to last year’s landmark High Court ruling outlawing indefinite detention, which has seen 153 detainees freed.

But today Australia’s top court dismissed the case.

“The High Court made a decision today, that was a decision that all legal experts were expecting,” Tehan told reporters in WA.

Separate to today’s High Court ruling, the Australian Border Force released a detailed summary of how the 153 released detainees are being managed in the community.

Tehan said that data was “alarming” because only 76 of the 153 detainees released after the November High Court ruling were wearing electronic monitoring devices

“There are seven murderers there are 37 sex offenders, and these are hardened criminals, Now what we know is that less than half of those are being monitored,” he said.

“And there is no answer to that question as to why, and what we’ve seen from the immigration minister today is further dereliction of duty because he will not front up and own these decisions.”