Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator for his question. I would make the point that the individuals who have now been released as a result of a High Court decision—which the government took a different view on in terms of the submissions; we expressed a different view—were obviously in detention at the time and no action was taken by those opposite to remove them from Australia. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was the Minister for Home Affairs at that time. So I would make this point to the opposition, that—