Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. It took the opposition three years after passing HRTO legislation to make the first application to the court. This is the system that you called for. It's the system that this parliament passed. And—if I can quote you—the shadow minister for home affairs said there is 'a very high legal threshold to be met' for a court to continue to agree to ongoing detention. 'We are all aware that there is a high threshold, and we knew that when we put the legislation through the parliament before Christmas.' So that's what you know. They're the facts. You come in here and conveniently run a different line to the one you know is true and the one I am quoting from. The government is doing everything it can to keep the community safe. We have preventative detention, community safety supervision orders, electronic monitoring devices, curfews—