Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:07): What it means, in short, is that those policies have been validated from a legal and constitutional point of view. The government was always confident that the amendments, in particular the amendments to the Migration Act, which were so strenuously resisted by the Greens, did have a sound legal and constitutional basis. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order on both sides! Senator BRANDIS: But this is now—Senator Hanson-Young and those of your colleagues from the Greens who I hear interjecting—beyond the political argument, because this issue has now been decided by the High Court by majority to be a matter of law. So please let us not hear any more bleating from the Greens that this is really Australia detaining these people, because the High Court has decided, as a matter of law, that these unauthorised arrivals are being detained on Nauru by the government of Nauru. (Time expired)