Senate debates

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Questions without Notice

Immigration Detention

2:41 pm

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

Well, they're not! I don't accept that at all. I do not accept that. We have been working on applications for preventative detention, and they will proceed. We want those applications to be successful. It is a high legal threshold, and it does require working with states and territories who have a lot of the information to put together those applications so that they are successful. In the meantime, there are a range of measures, as you're aware, that the law enforcement agencies are undertaking in monitoring the NZYQ cohort. To suggest that they are not being monitored is to reflect on the work of those—

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