Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Earlier on in question time the Prime Minister claimed that I wholeheartedly endorsed the Labor Party’s detention policies last year. As someone who actively objected to the abolition of mandatory detention for all while their identity, security and health were checked, I can say that we opposed the abolition of mandatory detention; we opposed the abolition of the 45-day rule; and we opposed the abolition of the detention debt for all. I think the Prime Minister was trying to refer not to my opposition of all of the detention measures that have been changed and softened by this government but rather to my membership of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, whose first report was tabled a few weeks after I joined that committee. That first report basically echoed—

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