Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Cash for the question. I think she would know that everyone in this chamber wants our children kept safe.

There were a number of assertions in the question from Senator Cash which were not correct. The first of those was a suggestion that, somehow, we wanted to release people into the community. She knows that we are not a government that can or will instruct public servants to act unlawfully. We argued against this case—