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

The short answer is no. There's an alternative regime that applies for people who are considered to be a national security risk—the preventive detention order. In general terms, the people who were in detention that this judgement applied to and that have now been released essentially failed a character test because they were convicted of other crimes or had been charged with very serious crimes, or because for some other reason they failed a character test, as opposed to the reasons you're putting forward.