Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister for immigration. Can the minister for immigration confirm that, of the 153 hardened criminals that were released into the community, at least two of the murderers are in the community without electronic monitoring? And, if we know it's at least two, what is the number of murderers out in the community without electronic monitoring?

Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

How many that you released had monitoring?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The Minister for Home Affairs and for Cyber Security is warned. The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs has the call.

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

I thank the shadow minister for his question. I do say that it was the Leader of the Opposition sitting there who let someone out of immigration detention. His delegate gave that person a visa with no monitoring and no reporting obligations, and that person went on, allegedly, to commit a crime. He doesn't seem interested in talking about it, because he and the shadow minister are always playing politics.

This group of people are being constantly monitored. As the ABF have advised, the location of every individual is known. The decisions that are made by delegates are informed by the work of the Community Protection Board, which comprises a range of expert people with deep experience in these areas who consider each case on its merits, as the law requires.