Andrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question, although I remind him and all members that it was a decision of the High Court that required this government—and indeed any government—to release the detainees in question. I remind him as well that the arrangements in place for support for people who are released from immigration detention are the same as they were when he was the minister responsible.

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