Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Again, my understanding is that there were no particular time frames set so that they would have to be released within a certain number of hours, minutes, weeks or days, but I would imagine—and I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong here—that the way the department approached this was that, once the assessments of those individuals were completed and whatever legal or other formalities and paperwork were completed, then those people would be released straightaway because that was what the High Court decision required. I understand the plaintiff, for example, was released within an hour of the High Court decision being handed down. We're talking about hours, as soon as those procedural steps could be taken.