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

Additional to that, legislation is required which isn't required for the reg to take immediate effect, but is required for us to have the full powers that we want to be able to have, and that legislation was introduced before question time today.

All of that has happened with a High Court decision that came down only yesterday. This government's first priority is community safety. If I can remind members, the first priority is not ankle bracelets or detention for these people; our first priority is we don't want them in Australia at all, and that is why we introduced powers today in the legislation to improve the government's capacity to remove people from this country in that situation.

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