"Mr Lewis is integral to the process of ending detention operations at Guantánamo Bay.
The government had an opportunity to end detention this year, as another asylum bill passed through parliament.
For example, in the first quarter of 2015, 41 children were taken into detention, despite the government pledging to end detention for children in 2010.
Cooper must wonder just how entrenched it is when her call to end detention for asylum seekers was overshadowed by Jeremy Corbyn taking the night bus.
Pressure is mounting on Malcolm Turnbull to end detention of refugees on Nauru and Manus Island, ahead of two summits at which world leaders will discuss the global crisis.
The statement read: "We continue to believe that it is in our national interest to end detention at Guantánamo, with a safe and orderly transition of the detainees to other locations.
A government which ends detention without trial and other discriminatory and unfair policies will grow a greater moral authority with which to demand respect for others and the law, even of angry members of minority ethnic groups.
The report concluded that, "The promulgation of Executive Order 9066 was not justified by military necessity, and the decisions which followed from it -- detention, ending detention and ending exclusion -- were not driven by analysis of military conditions.
"We continue to believe that it is in our national interest to end detention at Guantanamo, with a safe and orderly transition of the detainees to other locations," McCain said in a joint statement with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in June 2013.
In Australia, he highlighted some cases where the authorities had failed to provide adequate detention conditions, end the detention of children, or prevent escalating violence and tension at Manus Island.
