Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2024

Senator SCARR (Queensland) (12:18): I'll move on to another indicator with respect to whether or not the new ART is dealing quickly and fairly with cases that are coming before it, which was one of the aspirations of the Attorney when he introduced this reform. If we look into the migration and protection case loads in particular, when the coalition left office, the median time to finalise a refugee matter was 113 weeks.

The median time to finalise a protection matter under the Administrative Review Tribunal has now blown out to 232 weeks. Again, Minister, I ask you: What went wrong? Why has the timeline doubled?