Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Paterson can choose to twist my words in whatever way he wants to make a political statement. That's entirely his right. It is politics, and, if Senator Paterson wishes to play politics with this important matter, that's a matter for him. I repeat the statement from the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs this morning that the plaintiff has now been released, and, as I said in my two-minute statement, he has released subject to very strict conditions. He has been put on a bridging visa with strict conditions. Those conditions include the requirement—