Federal government rushes to pass new laws to re-detain offenders
Offenders released from immigration detention could be locked-up again under new preventative detention laws. The release of the High Court's reasoning now gives the government the framework to create new legislation outside the immigration system. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says her department is moving quickly to put new laws in place.
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00:00 We received the High Court's reasons for decision yesterday and our government is now going
00:07 to move quickly to establish the toughest possible preventative detention regime.
00:12 Now to do that we are going to need the Liberals to work with us.
00:16 Peter Dutton's very good at saying no and they've played a lot of politics with this
00:19 issue.
00:20 Let's see now if they come into the Parliament and help us keep the Australian community
00:24 safe.
00:25 We want to move on this as quickly as possible.
00:28 Next Thursday the Parliament is due to rise.
00:31 We are not going home until a preventative detention regime has been adopted by this
00:36 Parliament.
00:37 We're not going home.
00:38 And to do that we need the Liberals to work with us.
00:41 They are very good at saying no, very good at standing in our path and I'd say to Peter
00:45 Dutton today, stop slowing us down and work with us to make sure that we can pass these
00:50 laws and keep the community safe.
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