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

The records of what we've got there would be largely issues held by state and territory authorities. I don't have those stats in front of me. But what I will say is that the concept of people on visas who have committed crimes previously being in the community with no restrictions is what used to happen. That's why I give the example—you refer to those particular crimes—102 convicted sex offenders were released with no conditions into the community from detention by the Leader of the Opposition. Sixty-four child sex offenders were released with no conditions into the community by the Leader of the Opposition.

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