Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:13): I am not familiar with the case to which you refer. Therefore, I have no reason that no whether the way in which you have described it is accurate or not. It would not be appropriate for the Prime Minister to direct another minister in the manner of the exercise by him of a statutory discretion. I am sure the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection will exercise his statutory powers appropriately and lawfully.
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