Services minister says number of outstanding cases cut from 1.35m to 460,000. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAsked whether he will review who in the cohort of “foreign nationals released under that high court ruling are under preventative detention orders” on ABC RN, Tony Burke responded:In terms of those individuals, my priority is keeping people safe. My absolute priority is keeping people safe. So we’ve started to have some conversations about some of the different challenges, legal challenges, that are being tried, and what we need to do to make sure that the community is kept safe here.Obviously, no one wanted the High Court decision, we fought the High Court decision. And what we have to do now is within the confines of what we’ve been given by the High Court, make sure that we leave absolutely no stone unturned in keeping people safe.The prime minister has put together a team of six people. So there’s myself as the lead minister, there’s two assistant ministers, and it’s three different envoys …So while there’s been a fair bit of attention to me being the lead minister, the fact that we have a team that will work really effectively across the full range of issues, gives me a very high degree of confidence of how we’ll handle this. Continue reading…
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