The Australian Human Rights Commission conducts ongoing monitoring of conditions in detention to ensure that Australia’s immigration detention system complies with our obligations under international human rights law.

Australia’s immigration authorities use hotels as Alternative Places of Detention (commonly known as APODs) instead of housing some people in immigration detention centres.  

In mid-2022, the Commission conducted inspections, interviews and consultations to monitor the human rights of people detained in hotel APODs in Melbourne and Brisbane. This report describes the living conditions within hotel APODs and provides an assessment of the human rights impacts.

The report makes 24 recommendations to better protect the human rights of people detained in hotel APODs.