Scott Morrison says he never said there were no refugees in Melbourne’s Park hotel

Prime minister refuses to apologise for radio interview in which he cast doubt on the status of refugees held in immigration detention

Scott Morrison has denied misleading Australians about whether his government is detaining refugees at a Melbourne hotel, insisting he “answered to the best of my knowledge at that time”.

Guardian Australia understands there are 25 refugees and seven asylum seekers currently held in the hotel.In an interview on Monday focused on the Djokovic case, the 2GB host Ben Fordham pointed out that the tennis star “was kept in a Melbourne hotel that also holds asylum seekers that have been denied visas”.

Morrison did not specifically concede that there were also refugees detained there. People who were not found to be refugees and who would not return home “can’t enter Australia”, he said.

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