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

I have moved senior officials of the department so that the principles of the new revised direction can come into place properly without any unintended consequences, like those the former minister for home affairs, the now Leader of the Opposition, was not conscious of when he was responsible for this.

I note again a report in today's Sydney Morning Herald, which begins:

Two men convicted of accessory to murder were released from federal detention when Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was the minister in charge of immigration and home affairs, …

Released by him—not by the AAT, by his delegate when he was responsible. When is he going to go back—

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