Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

because she thought it was political to have an inquiry into children in detention when, under Labor, there were 2,000 of them but somehow it was okay to have a politicised inquiry into children in detention when, under this coalition government, there are fewer than 200 of them. We have lost confidence in the President of the Human Rights Commission because she thought it was somehow okay to recommend $300,000 in taxpayers' money to be paid to someone who murdered his wife and his child—that a wife and child murderer should be paid $300,000 because the government had the hide to keep this person in detention because he would obviously have been a menace to the community. If members opposite think that people like that should be let out—if they think that people like that should be compensated—they had better stand up and explain themselves to the Australian people. It is precisely because people like that have no judgement—members opposite have no judgement—that they are engaging in this kind of grubby nitpicking now.

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