Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

First of all, the decision from the High Court that's been referred to there is not the decision that the government wanted, but it is a decision that we'd prepared for. So this morning I was with the Governor-General, signing new regulations, and those new regulations allow what was cut out by the High Court yesterday to now go through reconsideration on a new test, which is viewed as being legal, and for that new test to be applied to the full case load.

Of course, let's not forget that the concept of people in these circumstances being on ankle bracelets at all is something that has only started since this government came to office. It was previously the case, for example, that 102 sex offenders were released from immigration detention by the Leader of the Opposition with no conditions at all.

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