Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. As the minister has acknowledged today, we are assured by the government that the 83 individuals—as I understand it now—released following last week's High Court decision are subject to:

… a range of strict mandatory visa conditions. Such conditions include restricting types of employment, requiring regular reporting to authorities, and requiring released detainees to report their personal detail including their social media profiles …

My colleague Senator Paterson has asked on multiple occasions: what are the specific consequences if one of these 83 individuals released from immigration detention violates these visa conditions? Is it the fact that the penalty for breaching a visa condition is detention pending removal, which the High Court has ruled unconstitutional for this cohort? Is that the reality that Senator Paterson has identified and the government has failed so far to address?