Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My understanding of it is that the High Court said that as punishment you cannot keep them indefinitely. That's why they've been released from the detention centres into the public, which is a national security threat and a public threat. My understanding of that ruling is that you cannot really, in light of the High Court's decision, put anyone else into detention centres because that would come under the same ruling. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that anyone who is classified as an illegal in Australia cannot be put into detention centres because of the High Court ruling. That therefore means that anyone that comes to Australia illegally by plane or by boat then can't be put in detention centres because of the ruling of the High Court. Is it right that the Australian taxpayers must be responsible for them going into the public?