A FORMER Federal Court judge will review adverse security findings by ASIO against asylum seekers in a move that could see people released from indefinite detention.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says former justice Margaret Stone will be appointed as an independent reviewer to re-examine cases where ASIO has found asylum seekers were a security threat.
The move comes as the federal government considers the impact of a High Court ruling earlier this month that found an asylum seeker deemed a security risk could still be granted a refugee visa.
The decision has important implications for about 50 asylum seekers, most of whom are Sri Lankans, who were given adverse ASIO security assessments and who remain in indefinite detention.
They can't be sent back to their home country and neither can they go to any third country.
Ms Roxon told ABC TV's 7.30 Report on Monday that while the High Court gave ASIO's process "a tick", there were complaints it was a secret process.
"We believe given the very serious consequences of holding people in detention, often for a long period of time, that an extra level of independent assessment should be put on top of those decisions by ASIO," Ms Roxon said.
"And if that independent reviewer, Margaret Stone, ... if she recommends the decision is flawed in some way, then of course that will mean that a decision is remade and in some instances it might mean that people are able to be released.
"I think it will be good for ASIO and good for the community that that extra level of accountability is in place," she said.
Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says an independent review of ASIO decisions makes sense.
"The Greens have been pressuring the government to deliver a reprieve for these refugees and I am relieved that the government has accepted our recommendation of an independent review," she said in a statement.
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