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

There are a small number of children who may not be able to be placed in the community due to particular risks associated with their parents or carers. In these circumstances, they remain in low security risk alternative places of detention. People arriving irregularly by boat are placed in held detention, as I said, until the necessary health, security and identity checks are completed and until they can be assessed for placement in community detention or out into the community on a BVE. Those opposite once again today demonstrate their complete hypocrisy. Those opposite keep trying to pretend that their policies would have worked and would work today. The expert panel has put forward 22 recommendations. (Time expired)