Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian government is committed to ensuring that children are accommodated in the community where appropriate. There will always be a period of time immediately after arrival when children and their parents and carers will be placed in APODs while initial identity, health and character checks are undertaken. These checks include assessing whether or not it is reasonably practicable to take an offshore entry person to Manus or Nauru. The average period that families with children are in held detention is around 120 days. There are a small number of children— (Time expired)