IMMIGRATION minister Tony Burke says he's more concerned about the time children stay in asylum seeker detention centres than with the total number being held.
Labor's policy states that children will not be held in detention centres, but about 1,800 currently are.
Mr Burke defended the decision on the ABC's Lateline program, telling host Emma Alberici "the principle issue" was not how many were detained but how long they are held for.
There isn't a "significant challenge for the welfare of children," he added, if children are in detention centres to undergo health and security checks and these happen quickly.
"But if you have children being held for a longer period of time then you have a very different welfare issue," he told the ABC on Wednesday.
"My principle concern here is to work out how long they've been there because I think that's actually the welfare issue."
The newly appointed immigration minister was then pressed by Ms Alberici on about 300 children who have been held in a Tasmanian detention centre for at least six months.
"These are figures that I'm wanting to have verified and I'm wanting to work out how we can deal with this as quickly as we can," Mr Burke said.
Mr Burke would not say how quickly this would be, reiterating that it was important people were screened before possible release into the community.
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