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

To your first question, the powers that you were talking about can be invoked for any of the people who have been released. I don't have the details of each of those individuals and whether they've all been convicted of a crime or not, but I would point out that the entire reason that those individuals were in detention in the first place was because they had failed a character test, because, in many cases, they had committed crimes. In some cases, there may have been other reasons—in all cases very good reasons—that they failed that character test. Because I don't have the factual circumstances of all 84 people, I can't give you information as to whether all of them have committed a crime and therefore are subject to these powers.

To your second question, I am advised that the decisions of the minister that are being presented in both the original legislation and the amendments are judicially reviewable. Does that—