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

I thank the Leader of the Nationals for his question. Of course, all of us here are concerned for the victims in these circumstances. That is why, as the Prime Minister has said and I have just outlined at some length, we are introducing a new, revised ministerial direction to ensure that the two principles we have held for some time—protection of the community and common sense—are part of the decision-making consistently, particularly at the AAT, where we have not been seeing common sense.

I note that yesterday members opposite had a chance to have a say about that. They chose to vote to keep the AAT.

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