Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Again I say this: currently, as I understand it, Mr Campos is on a valid bridging visa. Again I reiterate that the Attorney-General does have the discretion to issue criminal justice stay certificates in relation to persons once their visas have expired. Such a certificate would ensure that such a person is not able to be removed from Australia and the Attorney-General could only do so if he was satisfied that the person should remain in Australia for the purpose of the administration of criminal justice in relation to a Commonwealth offence. Again I say that it is a matter for the Australian Federal Police as to whether there is sufficient information available to the Attorney-General in relation to this case for that consideration to be made. More broadly, issues as to prosecutions decisions are not matters for the minister; they are matters for the independent statutory authorities to which I have referred. (Time expired)