SYDNEY: Australia is facing two court challenges to its controversial asylum-seeker policies, with both seen as test cases.
The High Court in Canberra began hearing a case on the validity of a law used to detain 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers for weeks on the high seas in June, after they sailed from India.
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