ABF won't say how many unmonitored murderers could be in the community

[@JonC12312]

Thank you for the continued seeking of truth and transparency in these matters, Senator Paterson.

[@AA-oc9vu]

These public servants are shameful. Thank you Senator for revealing all of this.

[@chezdee2405]

That ABF Commissioner is a straight out of Utopia!! What a joke that our tax dollars pay for his ineptitude!!

[@em_d]

Slippert cocky smartarse telling Sen Patterson what the "Public would Like". This Labor party and ALL department leaders must go.

[@anthonykuster4192]

Thank you for the good & proper politics Senator Paterson.

[@joshuamullineux871]

James, please keep up the fantastic work.

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

Senator Paterson,-you are the Publics "CHAMPION''--God help us if were not around,-to expose these Fools

[@colinmeehan791]

With Watts being the main fool.

[@billyballsup2685]

Senator rennick and a few others should be the ones running this country.

[@letmeexplain1816]

This Senator is truly worthy to be called "Honerable" !! Thanks for your sincerity, honesty, and integrity as well as your hard work !!

[@anthonymoore7586]

Disgraceful performance by those entrusted to protect Australians

[@gregwaghorn8496]

Corruption at its finest. We have a right to protect ourselves

[@Hanneke_1]

How can there be a level on offences?offences are offences. We are talking about non citizens in our country breaking our laws! Maybe public safety or country security is not a priority?! Thank you senator Patterson, keep fighting for Australia and our protection.

[@diggerduckaussie6834]

They lock kids up for a push bike helmet fine, how pathetic for the police.

[@davemclean3899]

They do not like to be scrutinized

[@theitchywitch]

Any offence of a person on a temporary visa should result in cancellation of that visa and deportation. ABF is a joke. These imports are not Australian citizens so domestic law doesn’t/ shouldn’t apply to them.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Well said and so true.

[@wilsonjimmy1]

Who the hell does that commissioner think he is ? Thank you Senator for not rolling over for this foreigner

[@davemclean3899]

Great work JPat 💪🇦🇺

[@chezdee2405]

That Minister is always shifting blame.

[@colc2190]

Did I hear correctly? Watt actually said he was trying to protect Australians, what a tool

[@wyattfamily8997]

He reinforces that view every time he opens his mouth.

[@rickbiesboer]

Fool not tool

[@billyballsup2685]

He defends everything put to him.

[@manoffaithministry]

I am all for forgiveness for those who have repented of their crimes but these people have broken more laws by entering Australia in ways that are illegal because they knew they would not be given refufe under our policy guidelines. In that we now have people who have committed possible and probable horrendous crimes and they have free run in our communities. I am concerned about the 20+ in Qld, Qlders deserve to know where these people are just like they deserve to know where other abhorent types of criminals have been relocated within their communities. Keep up the pressure Senator Patterson.🇦🇺❤️‍🔥

[@GordonSou]

Public Servant waffle and BS. Murder is serious - duh!

[@WWROGER]

There all serious offences but some are serious others are less so. What absolute nonsense. Who are these people paid to protect?

[@dennisgundry3994]

That copper is out of line , and so is that dill Murray Watt, still trying to blame the former Govt

[@colinmeehan791]

Watts has form.

[@locomotion4118]

The statistics have to be dragged out of these civil servants. The information that Senator Patterson has been asking for should have been at the fingertips of Andrew Giles and his bureaucrats. Giles and his incompetents don’t appear to understand the concept of “if you can’t measure something, you can’t manage it.”

[@allanjones3952]

Do these people k n o w they are paid by the Australian public.!!!

[@acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059]

They couldn't care less

[@helengormlie966]

Tell that to the people who have been physically harmed or had family members murdered!! These public servants are so arrogant and self serving!!

[@debrashawcross170]

"Officials" need to be Arrested for putting Australians at Risk!

[@TheIlias333]

I sincerely appreciate this Senator, but is he participating in a very bad joke that is being played on Australians? The Public does not agree and / or appreciate what is going on, as displayed in this hearing/Senate Inquiry. So, we have two different rules/standards/laws? One for Aussies and another for non-Aussies?

[@Hanneke_1]

How can there be a level on offences?offences are offences. We are talking about non citizens in our country breaking our laws! Maybe public safety or country security is not a priority?!

[@zarathustra8326]

Why is this police officer / public servant so belligerent?

[@godoggies1249]

Narcissistic..

[@atomickidd1]

Because the government and minister have restricted information to be provided via that recent policy document for this Committee and others.

[@helengormlie966]

Hiding something

[@em_d]

Yes and why do we need an Englishman to be the Department leader.

[@leewallace6180]

Protecting the pedos, more than likely.

[@CraigColling-s1u]

Murray Watt and the LABOUR Gov, Australia Border Force do not care about the safety of us Aussie's and your love one's.

[@oz_bogan]

no offence but senate does absolutely nothing besides ask questions and 90% are put on notice. Can someone give me an example when senate actually intervened in an issue and made a difference?

[@TerrenceBosworth]

Higgins and Wilkinson were captured on tape plotting to help bring down the government by attacking Senator Reynolds in the Estimates hearings as Higgins said that the witnesses were under oath. Higgins suggested using Albanese or Katy Gallagher to attack senator Reynolds. The hearing , Gallagher attacked Senator Reynolds in such a vicious manner, senator Reynolds collapsed onto the floor in Parliament.

[@godoggies1249]

Another example of why we shouldnt look towards their government for answers..

[@jackbarnes6929]

I’m sitting here watching the AFP practice complete denial, out of touch with public standards, deflecting behind some obscure judgement standard. Seems like incompetence to me.

[@manoffaithministry]

Proves Australians can no longer trust those in the top positions of the organisations allegedly keeping us safe.

[@acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059]

The APF a pathetic

[@debrashawcross170]

Immigration reject Genuine Tourist Visa Applications, keep the $190 Fee, (destroying Holiday plans for family and friends), yet these Criminals are roaming around. I feel Sick!

[@tazzygeoff621]

How do you " protect the community" by letting criminals on the street? What a load of crap.

[@rob6543]

Wow thankyou PM FOR KEEPING AUSTRALIAN SAFE this is a disgrace

[@darrylmackie9184]

What does This Commissioner DO, he mentioned dozens of other agencies who appear to be Faceless BUT They are Responsible?

[@johnephgrave4701]

The incompetence of labor is astonishing

[@wyattfamily8997]

Appreciate your attempts to represent the people of Australia Senator, unfortunately there are many who appear before you that are also determined to provide as little information as possible to both you and the people of Australia. Your frustration must be palpable sometimes Senator when obfuscation and incompetence is so rife.

[@peterslater2914]

Watt should be confined to making a decision on ham prices, because he is absolutely not fit for anything else. Always blames the last government, really sick of this. The commissioner is good at double speak and that's it. How about the victims of your decisions or none decisions. The system is broken. James is pushing shite uphill here.

[@alistairgrant9705]

What a disgrace we need to know Just a cover up again

[@Le_coq_sportiff]

Fatima payman should hav an ankle monitor

[@locomotion4118]

Outram apparently prefers shades of grey, rather than binary right and wrong. His mastery of prevarication is as good as the senior managers of Home Affairs, and completely in line with Labor’s weak leadership. As long as Labor is in power, his job is safe.

[@Mark-q3t4k]

Professional arse coverers protecting themselves.

[@justmemimi7338]

I’m horrified by how glib these public servants are, and the disregard for the safety of Australians. . We are talking about people who should NOT be in this country in the first place. We are paying for these criminals, and they shouldn’t be here in the first place. To suggest that we should look at the circumstances of each case is outrageous. Those crimes are indeed serious, especially for the majority of Australians are law abiding citizens. Evidently, we need to change the laws. What is the ALP doing about this?

[@mikeoneill9461]

The ALP keeping Australia safe? I question that when we have cracks appearing in our borders under the ALP/GREENS coalition governance

[@diggerduckaussie6834]

Thank you mr Patterson, just lock the criminals up, you have to protect us, not criminals. You did try to stick up for criminals, I think you need to assess your job police, are you for criminals or Australians

[@justiceforall6135]

Why are the border force hesitant about placing electronic monitoring on murderer's? Any murderer hesitant in having an electronic monitor would without a doubt offend again. Even one murderer not having an electronic monitor is a risk to the community let alone less than 5... The Australian public needs to be assured of their safety and prevention of murderer's to re offend.

[@thehealthymindsethub]

Are the Minister & Commissioner for real, keeping us safe? By deliberately releasing offenders into the community without monitoring. Instead they'll send out more resources that they don't have🤦🏽‍♀️ Ridiculous!

[@colinmeehan791]

Watt always harking back to previous Governments and what they did or didnt do.This has all happened under Labors watch and have stuffedup completely.

[@margyrowland]

They care more about foreigners than Aussies

[@islandhighmusic]

james patterson , from what i have seen and heard of you , you are or should be a role model every young politician should strive for , being able to stay focused as you do while the waffles and the BS flys around you is commendable , you are a cut above those other people , it is good to see someone can see through their pathetic excuses , i hope you stay true to every truly patriotic australian , especially when you are promoted .

[@ricochet2977]

Zero transparency from these bureaucrats.

[@benjamincrouch583]

This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up 🤬

[@ChrisBrown-ux8jn]

The assistant commissioner is clearly on the criminals side. He must be being paid off.

[@John21861]

As soon as you see someone being questioned say “um” the next thing they say will be a lie ✌️

[@pamelawinfield9211]

Why are Australians not the priority of ABF,ADF, and federal government?

[@schuey3828]

omfg, this is just getting worse and worse!

[@brentonporter1503]

Watt should not be present for any hearing he is no good!

[@peachypeachman4860]

I wonder if any of these criminals live next door to these public servants, i think not !

[@johnlonghurst9265]

Tha gardens are being very well fertilised!

[@thiagotirapelle290]

The high Court should be under investigation. All this dangerous people released in the community is just evil.

[@WW-md3st]

Please give us some names who is at high court so we can see who we are voting for next time 🤔 and this happens in Australia we 20 years behind times 🤔🤷‍♂️🤮

[@di_r67]

Wow, that commissioner is just as greasy as the labor mps and public servants. In fact, I believe, the high court only asked for one detainee to be released. I could be wrong but it’s as I remembered.

[@gregwaghorn8496]

Laws are corrupt

[@birtlee2078]

Where is Clare ONeil???

[@ChrisDimo]

These public servants are such clowns. Full of hot air. Can i book the main dude for my 4 yo birthday party

[@Torana1974]

Seems to be plenty smug bs answer’s and then they have to cheek to turn it on senator Patserson

[@sako-xb2bq]

Insane, they carefully review their decisions to ensure compliance with a high court order and that somehow resulted in purposefully allowing recorded murderers into the wild without monitoring them? Incompetence or wilful ignorance allude to the markings of tainted influence.

[@vensimo4293]

Wow do 20 km over the limit i got told that was serious but these are not that serious

[@gregwaghorn8496]

Why are they released.....? How come we have no voice about this. F..k the court

[@DavidHunter-n8p]

I think if you played this on national television the Australian public would be outraged.

[@aliceclayton1914]

So this guy has an accent, either English or possibly Scottish. And I realise this won’t sound right, but when your talking about a committee in charge criminal deportations, not being born in this country, couldn’t that be a conflict. Possibly even an unconscious decision process!

[@danbanks1010]

As a tax payer im happy for you to sack the borderforce guys infront of you as incompetent and wasting my money with their word salad horseshit. Not good enough.

[@smallscreentv1204]

These government employees are so incredibly out of touch.

[@mavphill]

Soft on Crime - Labor

[@gregwaghorn8496]

When theses criminals take your families life, whos at fault?

[@nk60001]

He Thinks we buy his spin

[@thelonewolf666]

this country is a joke and its why i will never pay any taxes

[@barrettloraine1486]

The same criminal senator butting in , disgusting.

[@smallscreentv1204]

This ABF commander would put Kamala Harris’s word salad efforts to shame

[@StephenMcKinley-kx8ip]

These people should never have been released into the community 🙄.

[@TrevorBaker-pd4ct]

How does this this lot keep there job????

[@BrigitteTucker-vn9bf]

He can't say they all are very serious offences, he doesn't know about the individual cases,as the ABF Commissioner says he doesn’t have the facts and misrepresents what the Commissioner said. Stealing food isn't stealing a car and stealing a car isn't bashing a grandmother.Why doesn’t he understand the difference?

[@TheCapt222]

So the police and the minister keep talking about public safety yet they don't think the people have a right to know if murders rapists and pedophiles and serial offenders and living in their community and likely unmonitored and illegals that's just shocking but not a surprise under Labor

[@where_is_my_slippers]

Senator, he doesn't speak for us. He couldn't care less what we want to see.

[@ChrisWells-o3l]

The facts show how great your procedures are Watt I suggest you ask the families of the person who has been killed and bashed how the procedures are working

[@LeonLechner-vs7vp]

Killing it Patto ! Please look into my daughter’s case being part of the Temporary Visa Domestic Violence Pilot Program - Dreyfus, Rishworth & Gallagher.

[@StephenMcKinley-kx8ip]

What a disgrace these people are.

[@dm.b7560]

WTF is he talking about.....

[@gregwaghorn8496]

They wont us to struggle on the streets

[@derrickrath4253]

Police and board obligated to follow the mandate of crimminal and judicial system in place - yes! Well done police for stating that you are absolutely bound to the law!!! And if they went outside of that, the criminals would then be able to sue for unfair judicial procedure, be fully freed, reimbursed by tax payer for criminal and judicial negligence, and then further with suing under such again! Point the police had said; "we cannot say "in a public setting" to identify persons that would then be hunted down... and it is the governments overall negligence to communicate among parties to re-address the actual laws and policies that they themselves made and allowed over the decades of corrupt negilegence of managering governance.... meanwhile the senator is simply trying to politicially force this particular inquiry, to have police blatantly state that it was the prime minsters signature on the bottom... as he has been all over every commercial media platform saying, as well as promoting himself for the next election! How about you actually access the chanels of infomation from the parliment your apart of, actually introduce change by challenging and removing the corrupt dealers in canberra... Instead of propping up them playing the same chest beating ego games senator.... i love the challenges and critical thinking... but make the changes in parliment rather than wasting peoples time doing their jobs underfunded, underskilled, undermaned, and with more and more media frenzied reactionary guestures as albo does...??

[@catherinesarah5831]

I would have thought, anyone convicted of murder would be incarcerated, overcoming the need to be electronically monitored. If they aren’t incarcerated it should be mandatory to be monitored. Just saying. 🙏

[@terrymorey404]

ABF are as bad as murray watt and co that ABF officer should be sacked now

[@smallscreentv1204]

Agreed with these comments that the ABF commander is a smarmy arrogant person who can’t just provide a straight answer Why?

[@Heisthelightoftheworld]

Why is the man with rank making excuses for the criminals or is he justifying these for his masters. And then we have Murry Watt minister for certain things telling us they are keeping Australians safe by their (Labours) actions. So according to Murry there's a conflict of "lawful and law" between the government and the justice system. Aren't these criminals on visas? Therefore back to their country of origin they go!!!!

[@abrighterday508]

What about the ramifications of 0.1% interest rates on homelessness? What about Scotties multiple portfolios nobody knew anything about?

[@richardhills235]

Baffle you with bullshit.

[@gregwaghorn8496]

You cant thimk how a criminal thinks...lol