Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this motion. Our government's No. 1 priority is to keep the Australian community safe. Australians know that this was a decision of the High Court of Australia and that no parliament and no minister is above the law. The safety of the Australian community has been at the heart of every single decision this government has made. Following the High Court's decision we immediately stood up Operation AEGIS. This brought government, law enforcement and security agencies across the nation together. We have put in place four layers of protection: preventative detention, community safety supervision orders; electronic monitoring devices and curfews; and stringent visa conditions. We have set up a community protection board which places advice from our trusted law enforcement and security agencies at the centre of decision-making. We have invested a quarter of a billion dollars to arm our agencies and law enforcement. We have given our agencies the tools they need to enforce strict laws we passed in parliament last year. Our law enforcement agencies, the AFP and ABF, along with their counterparts in states and territories, are working around the clock to enforce this strict regime.