Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Paterson invited the minister to apologise to the alleged victim of this latest sexual assault and, indeed, other victims of the NZYQ cohort. The minister did not take the opportunity to apologise. If the Albanese government is refusing to say sorry and refusing to apologise to those who have been impacted by crimes of these released criminals, what is your message to those who are paying the real-life consequences of their release and reoffending?