Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

There was some public debate about the member for McMahon when he was immigration minister about his motivation for acting on advice or acting against advice, as it may have been on this occasion, from the department. If the Labor Party want to go through these cases, I'm happy to do it, but I tell you now, Mr Speaker: I look at the merit of these individual cases and I make a decision based on the facts before me. Ministerial intervention is not enlivened—

Dr Aly interjecting—

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