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.
