Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—The extra time I will have here, having made the tabling speech, will allow me to look in greater detail at the recommendations in the report of the Joint Committee on Migration entitled Immigration detention in Australia: community-based alternatives to detention as well as address some of the comments by the shadow minister for immigation. It is worth restating that the committee is extremely pleased that the government has taken steps to respond to the recommendations from our first report, which was tabled in December 2008—in particular, recommendation 18 of that report that the government introduce legislation to waive all detention charges and debt immediately. I think the members for Kooyong and Makin have spoken positively about that.

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