Andrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Members opposite say they know that, but clearly they do not. As the respondent to this, I opposed that application. Let me be very clear about that. I opposed that application for reasons which I think unite pretty much everyone in this place. We believe that noncitizens who have committed very serious criminal offences, including sexual offences like the offences that the shadow minister just referred to, should not continue to remain in Australia. The circumstances here are that we have not been able to remove them. When I say 'we', I say again that none of these people have arrived in Australia since the election of the Albanese government. The members opposite should perhaps bear that in mind as well as our shared concern, rejection of and revulsion at the behaviour of—

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