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

I thank Senator Cash for the question. I will remind the Senate that the High Court ruled that indefinite detention is unconstitutional. That upended two decades of legal precedent and bipartisan policy, and that ruling is now the law of the land. I hope that Senator Cash would agree that no parliament and no minister is above the law. That goes to the first part of Senator Cash's preamble about how it has come to pass that immigration detainees have been released into the community with—