Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Cash. Minister, I refer you to the ongoing situation at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane, where your government is trying to force refugees and people seeking asylum from the so-called 'alternative place of detention' into an actual immigration detention facility. I've spoken personally to one of your innocent prisoners, who was told directly that he was being forcibly moved because he had spoken out publicly about the injustices he's faced over the last nearly seven years. Is it true that you are specifically moving people who have spoken out in the media or who have otherwise protested against their detention in order to silence their dissent?