A convicted terrorist is being kept in prison using orders that have been condemned in a Home Affairs inquiry. The department kept that report's findings secret — until now.
A scathing review of tools used by Australian authorities to measure the risk posed by terrorists once they have completed their prison sentence has been made public, after being kept hidden for years.'VERA-2R' and 'Radar' are tools used to measure the threat posed by people considered at risk of carrying out violent extremism
The calls were refused on the grounds the report contained sensitive information, that convicted terrorists could use to "manipulate" outcomes of risk assessments. Convicted terrorists can be held in detention after the completion of their sentence on 'continuing detention orders', if they are deemed an unacceptable risk of committing another offence.who later lost a high court challenge to the validity of the law.
Home Affairs has been heavily criticised by figures including the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor, Grant Donaldson, for refusing to hand over the Corner report during Benbrika's legal challenge. The now-public 150-page report raises substantial doubts about the tools, and whether they can be relied upon to accurately predict the risk an individual might pose.
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