Linda Kirk (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister reveal the details of the wrongful and tragic detention of another innocent person with mental illness by her department which she revealed in an interview with the Age newspaper? Why has it taken the minister so long to come clean about this wrongful detention? Can the minister indicate how many days this individual was wrongfully detained by the Howard government? When was this innocent person first detained by the immigration department and when were they finally released?