Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is on the same topic, and it's to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Watt. Minister, in light of the High Court decision yesterday that effectively ruled that indefinite immigration detention is constitutionally unlawful, and given the Solicitor-General said to the High Court during the hearing that, if the court ruled in the way that it did, people within the scope of the ruling—and I quote from the Solicitor-General—'will need to be released immediately into the community', firstly, exactly what is the government doing to comply with the implications of this decision; how many people within the scope of the ruling have been released from immigration detention since the decision was handed down; have you now, as you must, immediately released all stateless people from immigration detention; and how many people within the scope of the ruling currently remain unlawfully in immigration detention?