Senate debates

Friday, 17 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Immigration Detention

2:01 pm

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

We agreed pragmatically to work with you—both parties of government—to resolve this to act in the national interest, and every one of your amendments was agreed. So what I say to the opposition is: don't continue to just try to make conflict with this. Don't continue to just focus on division, because what we saw yesterday was a pragmatic agreement to operate in the national interest.

The advice I have in relation to the electronic monitoring is that the condition will be mandatorily imposed on all bridging visa holders in the NZYQ affected cohort. That's obviously a decision for the minister. The condition may be lifted only if the minister determines that the individual poses no community safety risk.

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