Defiant moment ‘incompetent’ Home Affairs minister Claire O’Neil unleashes over asylum seeker crisis in brutal TV clash: ‘First time I’ve heard you lie on camera’

“This is your incompetence. You are putting the Australian public at risk,” Senator Hume (pictured) told Ms O’Neil

She added, “You and I are friends. We have a long collaboration and we’ve done a lot of these interviews together.

“You know that’s not true. You shouldn’t lie to the Australian public like you are doing now.

“One of us tells the truth and one doesn’t.”

The minister said she was ‘very disappointed’ in Senator Hume.

“When the Supreme Court gives an order to the government, you have to follow that order,” she said.

That leaves open the possibility for the House of Representatives to meet this Friday and/or Saturday to draft the legislation.

Ms O’Neil advocated for the coalition to ‘work with us’.

“We are not going home until this parliament adopts a preventive detention regime,” she told ABC News.

‘Our government will now take swift action to introduce the toughest possible preventive detention regime. To do that, we need the Liberals to work with us.

“Peter Dutton is very good at saying ‘no’ and they have played a lot of politics with this issue.

“Now let’s see if they get into Parliament and help us keep the Australian community safe.”

Ms O’Neil defended her government’s response to overturning a precedent that has stood for two decades.

“I just want to point out that within a week and a day of the original Supreme Court ruling, we had set up a police operation and processed the people who were to be released into the community,” she said.

“I have never seen an Australian government move so quickly to adapt to a major constitutional decision.”

Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey (pictured) has warned that the Supreme Court ruling cannot be treated as a general law

But constitutional law expert Anne Twomey has warned that the Supreme Court’s decision, which outlines the options for preventive detention for detainees who pose an unacceptable risk of reoffending and therefore pose a threat to the community, cannot be upheld treated as a general law.

‘Certainly the opposition, and possibly the government, want to make some kind of legislation that treats this whole category of people as people who you can simply take back into custody on the grounds that they are a risk to the community – this judgment would that are not. support that,” she told ABC Radio.

‘However, what would support this judgment is that it falls under a law if you have a trial where someone can appear in court and a judge can make a judgment against him or her – saying that he or she is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds are. to believe that issuing a warrant for their arrest is in the public interest because of the unacceptable risk that they will commit a crime in the future – then that person can be detained as an individual.

“Trying to detain an entire group of people simply because they are unlawful noncitizens is not going to work, so it’s going to have to be some kind of individualized process.”