Nat Barr loses it at Anthony Albanese during heated clash on Sunrise: 'Surely ... trends now
Nat Barr has blasted Anthony Albanese after a freed immigration detainee allegedly bashed an elderly woman in a horror home invasion.
Ninette Simmons, 73, and her husband Phillip, 76, were left bruised and shaken after three men allegedly assaulted them and stole jewellery from their Perth home.
One of the alleged perpetrators, 43-year-old Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, is part of a cohort of immigration detainees at the centre of a federal political fight.
The Sunrise host questioned how the government's Community Protection Board had failed to recommend the freed detainee wear an ankle monitoring device.
Despite prosecutors warning Mr Doukoshkan that he was likely to re-offend and had issues with compliance, the board ruled he shouldn't have to wear the bracelet.
'Commonwealth prosecutors apparently did not oppose bail in that circumstance in Perth. Your own government board did not recommend an ankle bracelet,' Barr said.
Barr asked Mr Albanese if Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil would be sacked over the debacle.
The prime minister simply stated 'no' and said the decision had been out of his hands.
'Nat, in this country we have a separation of the judicial system from the political system. But if it was up to me I assure you that there wouldn't have been bail granted in that case,' Mr Albanese replied.
'But these things are done independently by the Director of Public prosecutions.'
Barr fired back: 'But it wasn't opposed.'
'That wasn't a decision by government Nat,' the PM rebutted.
'I'm just as upset about that decision as you are, I think it that lacks common sense.
Nat Barr has blasted Anthony Albanese and called for the resignation of one of his ministers after an elderly woman was bashed by a freed immigration detainee
Recently released immigration detainee Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan (above), who is accused of bashing an elderly woman in her own home, has been in and out of court this year
'That is one of the things, no doubt, that will be on the agenda today at the meeting of the attorney-generals, that will be chaired by Mark Dreyfus in Canberra, bringing together
