Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What we know is that this particular individual sexually abused a young girl, consensually and nonconsensually.

He is being held in immigration detention by our government, and that is where we intend to keep him. Now, I wish I could say the same of those opposite.

I would like to report that that's the end of where the differences on community safety lie between the two parties, but that's not the case, because what we just heard from the Minister for Immigration is absolutely accurate. That is, when we brought laws before this parliament—

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