The asylum-seeker baby at the centre of an immigration storm has been discharged from a Brisbane hospital.
"She's in community detention," Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed to the Nine Network on Monday.
Baby Asha's fate had sparked a week of rallies outside Lady Cilento Children's Hospital after doctors refused to release her, fearful she would be returned to detention on Nauru.
Asha is one of a group of 84 asylum seekers waiting for a government decision on their fate.
Mr Dutton insists the government's policy is to return them to Nauru when all legal and medical matters are resolved.
"That's the case for this family, it's the case for the other 83."
Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler doesn't believe community detention was part of the immigration minister's plan for Asha initially.
"What baby Asha's case has done is really put some perspective for the public, giving at least one child a face and a name," he told ABC radio.
"I do hope public opinion is starting to change."
Mr Dutton hit back at activists accusing some of using the opportunity to promote their own "media profiles".
The government wanted all children out of detention, he said, noting there were fewer than 75 there now.
Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said while it was some reprieve for Asha's family "the wolf remains at the door" for many others, referring to Mr Dutton.
Dozens of families were in fear they would be sent back to Nauru without notice.
Australians have had enough of vulnerable children becoming "collateral damage" in the government's asylum-seeker boat crackdown, she told reporters.
AMA warns of no return point if baby forcibly removed
Speaking at a rally in Sydney on Sunday, AMA president Brian Owler said doctors at the Brisbane hospital had no option but to refuse to release Asha because the child would have faced risk of harm if returned to detention.
"There is an absolute ethical, not to mention moral, obligation to that patient who is in their care," Prof Owler said.
"The obligation is to not release a child back into a situation where they have reason to believe that there is a risk of harm, whether that be physical or psychological."
The comments came after reports lawyers for baby Asha had been refused access to her mother, prompting fears a transfer from the hospital was imminent.
Prof Owler said he was shocked upon hearing reports that guards were to forcibly remove Asha from the hospital, against medical advice.
"It's a line that cannot be crossed. If crossed, there is no return."
The AMA is demanding the immediate release of children from onshore and offshore detention into the community, and a moratorium on asylum-seeker children being sent back to detention centres.
It has also called for the establishment of a transparent, national statutory body of clinical experts, independent of government, with the power to investigate and report to the parliament on the health and welfare of asylum seekers and refugees.
"At the end of the day, if (Immigration) Minister Dutton and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection believe that the care and treatment of asylum seekers is at a level that is appropriate, then why should they oppose this level of transparency?"
Prof Owler also questioned the announcement last Friday from the government of Nauru that it was cancelling visas for Australian and New Zealand citizens.
"Let me say that the game is up when the Nauruan Government cancels tourist visas for Australians and New Zealanders because they might see something that could be reported," Prof Owler said.
