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A Perth a grandmother who police say was hit by a released detainee spoke to the immigration minister on the phone.
ABOVE VIDEO: Perth grandmother talks about assaults by detainees.
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One of the defendants, Majid Jamshidi Dukoshkan, was among more than 150 detainees released in November after the Supreme Court ruled that indefinite detention was illegal.
The spotlight has been on Labour, particularly Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Home Secretary Claire O’Neill, after it was revealed the government missed the chance to put Dukoshkan behind bars two months before the violent home invasion.
Giles extended an olive branch to check on the pair on Wednesday.
Ninette said “he apologized” during their conversation. Labor MP Anne Alley was also filmed stopping by to see her in person.
Dukoshkan appeared in court in Perth in February charged with breaching visa conditions.
Despite repeated assurances from the government that the guarantee was opposed, it was not.
“It’s absolutely gut-wrenching,” Ninette told 7NEWS, revealing the attack left the couple “looking over our shoulders, scared, traumatized.”
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton called for Giles and O’Neill to be sacked, saying they had failed to keep Australians safe following the High Court ruling.
Even if bail had been denied, Dukoshkan would have been released about two weeks later when the charges were dropped. A government error resulted in his and all former detainees being declared invalid and new ones issued.
O’Neill expressed his sympathy for the Perth couple after the attack and said steps were being taken to monitor the released detainees.
“This particular man and others like him were held in immigration detention by our government, but the High Court of Australia made a decision last year requiring us to remove these people from custody,” she said.
“The safest thing for the community is for this man and others like him to be in immigration detention, and when I had the authority to maintain the situation, I did, all of these people were detained.”
Giles also rejected calls to resign.
Noting he was limited in what he could say about a case before the court, Giles said he had spoken to the WA Police Minister about the case.
The Prime Minister is now urging ministers to introduce preventive detention orders, taking high-risk offenders off the street.
“I want to see the applications ready as soon as possible,” Albanese said.
Dukoshkan has not yet pleaded guilty to the charges.
– With AAP
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