Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:23): Senator McKim, I am very proud of the fact that there are no children in detention in Australia today. When the government of which I am a member came into office, there were 2,000—in fact 1,992. That was at the end of the period of Labor government which had seen 8,000 children in detention. As a result of the policies of this government and the work of two ministers, Mr Morrison and Mr Dutton, there are now no children in detention. We have closed 17 detention centres in Australia because there is nothing for them to do. They are surplus to requirements, they are surplus to capacity, because we have solved the problem. The PRESIDENT: Senator McKim, on a point of order? Senator McKim: Yes, it is a point of order based on relevance. The Attorney was specifically asked whether he accepts that the government's deterrence policy was a myth; and will he in fact do the right thing and resettle people from Manus and Nauru here in Australia. We do not need the Attorney's version, rewriting history, about what has actually happened. The question was very specific. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator McKim. In fact, you really destroyed your own point of order in the way you framed it, because the Attorney-General was exactly answering that point—about whether it was a myth or not. The Attorney-General has been in order. Senator BRANDIS: Senator McKim—through you, Mr President—it is not a myth if it worked, and it did. It did: zero children in detention; no successful attempt to penetrate Australia's maritime borders for some 850 days; no deaths at sea, compared to the 1,200 or more that we know about during the period of the Labor government. And now, at last, we are dealing with the final legacy of the previous, Labor government—the offshore processing centres at Manus Island and Nauru. Now, the Australian government has reached an agreement with the government of the United States of America, the details of which were announced by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection last week. But I wonder when the day will eventually come that the fact that this problem has been comprehensively solved by this government— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: A supplementary question, Senator McKim.