Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Abetz continues to try to convince himself that Mr Howard is still the prime minister, but anyway! Senator Hanson-Young, I have gone into the question in my capacity as Minister representing the Attorney-General. I am aware of an article in the Advertiser from a few days ago on the Magill Training Centre. As senators may or may not be aware, that is a detention centre for young people who have been arrested and refused bail or been before a court and remanded in custody. The article makes a range of assertions about the conditions of the training centre.

Obviously, some of those allegations are of concern. The training centre, as I understand it, is the responsibility of the South Australian government. In fact, Senator Hanson-Young, I think you made some comments in that article in relation to that issue. As I said, there are some concerning suggestions made in that article by people who are in that training centre and the government is aware of that in that context, but I again make the point that these are— (Time expired)