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

The preventive detention model that the government put in place—through laws that passed this place—is based on the former Liberal government's high-risk terror-offenders scheme.

As others on that side know, including the shadow minister for home affairs, there is a very high legal threshold to be met for a court to agree to ongoing detention. We're all aware that there's a high threshold, and we knew that when we put the legislation through. As those opposite know, there is significant work underway preparing applications. We want those applications to be successful. People are working day and night on those applications, and you know that. You pretend otherwise, but you know it. The moment those laws passed this place, that work began—