{"id":928245,"date":"2026-10-14T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928245\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:46:10","slug":"home-affairs-detained-australian-citizen-for-945-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928245\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs detained Australian citizen for 945 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Home Affairs unlawfully detained an Australian citizen for 945 days, according to the Commonwealth ombud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person, identified as \u201cMx B\u201d, was released from prison in 2022 and immediately detained for deportation to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Mx B\u2019s claims to be an Australian citizen and three assessments by the department, they weren\u2019t released until New Zealand\u2019s government told Home Affairs in 2025 that Mx B definitely wasn\u2019t one of theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later that month, the detainee\u2019s legal representative pushed for Home Affairs to have another look at whether Mx B was a citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Home Affairs unlawfully detained an Australian citizen for 945 days, according to the Commonwealth ombud.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,495276,62195,228774,183250,44],"class_list":["post-928245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commonwealth-ombud","tag-department-of-home-affairs","tag-iain-anderson","tag-immigration-detention","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}