Labor’s preventive detention regime passes Senate as third freed immigration detainee arrested

Penny Wong told the Senate that Labor had done more on immigration in nine days ‘than those opposite have done in nine years’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Labor’s preventive detention regime for people released as a result of the high court ruling on indefinite detention has passed the Senate with Coalition support, despite a political firestorm after a third former detainee was arrested.

Victoria police confirmed that a 33-year-old man, who was a registered sex offender, was arrested in Dandenong on Tuesday after allegedly breaching his reporting obligations. The man will face Dandenong magistrates’ court this afternoon.