John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I do. I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question because it enables me to add, if I may, to my answer to the previous question on the same subject, which I was asked by the member for Swan. Because the member for Lalor has asked me a question about the minister and it relates obviously to her handling inter alia of the Ombudsman’s report, I wonder if she as well as the member for Swan have forgotten that, in 1992, the former government had so many unlawful detainees that they introduced retrospective legislation—namely, the Migration Amendment Bill 1992—limiting any compensation payable for unlawful detention to $1 a day. That was in 1992.

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