Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Evidence in Senate estimates has revealed that, of the 149 individuals the government has released from immigration detention, the minister has determined that 36 not be required to wear ankle bracelets. How many of these individuals have committed an offence?

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

I thank the shadow minister, again, for his question, but it's very difficult for anyone to accept the premise of that question. I say again that the government established the Community Protection Board to provide us with expert advice as to the conditions for those in the cohort. In terms of the other matters which I believe his question was going to, these are of course operational matters. They are operational matters which fall within the remit of Operation AEGIS, which, as he would be aware, is a joint AFP-ABF operation. All of these matters, if it's a breach of a federal offence, would be of course reported in the usual way by the AFP. For those matters which are breaches of state and territory offences, similarly they are a matter for those law enforcement authorities.