Senate debates Questions without Notice

Visitor Visa


Nick McKim

Nick McKim Tasmania, Australian Greens

2:55 pm

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Fifield. On 7 June 2015, Minister Dutton used his ministerial powers to intervene to issue a tourist visa to a person who was detained at the Brisbane International Airport for being an unlawful noncitizen. How exactly was Minister Dutton's intervention in the public interest, as he has claimed in a document before this parliament? What were the person's ongoing needs that Minister Dutton has claimed justified his intervention?

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