Sam Birrell (Nicholls, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Emran Dad lived in my electorate and was convicted and jailed for child sex offences and causing or inducing a child to take part in sex work. Dad recruited vulnerable children in state care for a child sex ring. The Albanese Labor government released him into the community, and he has now been re-arrested for alleged sex offender register breaches, including contacting children online. Why didn't the Prime Minister act sooner to protect my community and all Australians?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. It is indeed terrible that this person, as a result of the High Court—something that we did not want to see—has been in that situation. But, of course, it is a fact that from time to time—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Forrest will cease interjecting.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Let me quote this:

Three convicted terrorists have been released without any court-ordered supervision after a legal stuff-up saw police run out of time to apply for control orders.

Paul Dacre, Antonino Granata and Kadir Kaya were freed from a Victorian prison yesterday after serving four years in jail over a plot to sail to the Philippines and incite an Islamist uprising to bring down the government.

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Because the trio of "tinnie terrorists" had served their complete jail terms, they are not on parole and are therefore not subject to court-ordered supervision.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause on a point of order from the member for Nicholls.

The member for Casey will cease interjecting. The Prime Minister will pause for a moment so I can hear from the member for—

Order! The member for Casey will cease interjecting.

Opposition members interjecting—

Order! We'll move on. We won't hear the point of order. The Prime Minister, in continuation.

An opposition member: How is it his fault?

If members cease interjecting, I will hear the point of order.

Opposition members interjecting—

Members on my right will cease interjecting. The member for Nicholls is on his feet, on a point of order. He will be heard in silence.

Sam Birrell (Nicholls, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

A point of order on relevance: the question related to a specific person who committed offences in my electorate and why the Albanese government hadn't acted sooner to protect my community and all Australians in relation to that.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question contained, 'Why didn't the Prime Minister act sooner?' He's giving an answer. I'm not sure what the subject matter is, but I'd like to hear what he's got to say so I can deal with the point of order and make sure the Prime Minister is being relevant.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm speaking about the context of the law, from what was said in the Herald Sun on 11 May 2020, when you were in office: 'The Federal Police have never succeeded in obtaining a continuing detention order.' The Herald Sun said, on 14 March 2021, that 'three-quarters of the high-risk terrorism offenders released in 2020—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order, the Leader of the Nationals!

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

were rearrested and charged with breaching their control orders.' That occurred in: November 2020; December 2020—a 30-year-old Melbourne man; January 2021—a 25-year-old Sydney man and a 35-year-old Melbourne man; April 2021—a Sydney man; November 2021—a convicted terrorist offender arrested for—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The Leader of the Nationals will cease interjecting or be warned.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

repeatedly breaching a control order.

I am sympathetic with anyone—any of these circumstances. We have had to deal with these, because you have to deal with the law as it is—just as the former government did during the nine years in which it was in office. Barely a month went by when there wasn't a circumstance such as this.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Fisher will cease interjecting.