Liberal senator Ian Macdonald has taken aim again at the report on children in immigration detention which he's still proud of not having read.
Senator Macdonald chaired the estimates committee that grilled Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs over the report and whether she'd been asked to resign.
On Thursday he returned to the topic of "a report which I openly and somewhat proudly say I have not read".
"Why would one bother reading a report that is irresponsible, irrelevant and inaccurate?" he said in the Senate.
"This is a document on which you should not waste your time reading."
The federal government didn't need a 300-page report to tell it children shouldn't be detained, the immigration department had found it riddled with inaccuracies, and the commission was politically motivated, Senator Macdonald said.
And anyway, there were no kids left in immigration detention in Australia.
"They may have been forgotten by the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government but they have certainly not been forgotten by the Abbott government," Senator Macdonald said.
The commission's inquiry ran during most of 2014 but was prompted by concerns raised when there were almost 2000 children in immigration detention centres in mid-2013.
There are now fewer than 200 children detained.
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