Senate debates
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Questions without Notice
Immigration Detention
2:19 pm
Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source
It does distract attention from the fact that the Leader of the Opposition, as the home affairs minister, presided over a corrupt immigration system that has been described as such in a number of reports now—a completely broken system.
On the point about where people are and monitoring, I direct the opposition to the comments from the AFP's Acting Deputy Commissioner Nicholls, who said in Senate estimates:
I don't think there's any difficulty in knowing where they are.
So, again, we have the opposition criticising AFP personnel for political gain. (Time expired)
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