Refugee advocates have welcomed the Government's "compromise" in placing an asylum seeker baby in community detention, after a 10-day protest outside a hospital in Brisbane.

Key points: Protesters label decision to place baby Asha in community detention 'fair compromise'

Protesters label decision to place baby Asha in community detention 'fair compromise' CEO of ASRC says decision is "a result, not business as usual"

CEO of ASRC says decision is "a result, not business as usual" Protesters thank community for 250 pizzas delivered last night

One-year-old baby Asha was transferred from Lady Cilento Children's Hospital to community detention this morning, after being treated by doctors who refused to discharge her back into offshore detention.

Chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) Kon Karapanagiotidis said that was a "fair compromise".

"Community detention is a fair compromise. It is far, far, far better than being in an immigration prison," he said.

"The mum and the baby — and hopefully the father will be joining them soon — are in a community housing situation and also in medical care and able to contact their lawyers. We see that as a fair compromise."

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Sunday that it was always the Government's intention to move baby Asha into community detention.

But Mr Karapanagiotidis said that was never communicated to the family.

"It is a result, it is not business as usual. Dutton was trying to run the line that this was standard operating procedure but the reality is it is not," he said.

"If he had intended to do this in the first place, that is what would have been said to the mother on Saturday morning, instead of cutting off phone access to the mother and telling her she was going to be moved.

"If the minister's intention was to release that child into community detention with the mother, why did he wait until there was this extraordinary community backlash and pressure? Why wouldn't he have done that in the first place?

"This was a minister having to back down because of community backlash pressure, and at the very least, a tacit knowledge that there was a clinical decision that had been made by doctors and he had to follow that — that Nauru was not safe."

Mr Dutton told the ABC that the Government would stick to its policy of returning asylum seekers to offshore detention once medical and legal issues had been resolved, saying it would not be "blackmailed" into making changes.

But Mr Karapanagiotidis said people would be ready to mobilise if that happened.

"The minister is saying this baby will eventually be sent to Nauru and the response from the community has been 'no the hell they will not'," he said.

"There are people in the community that will be keeping a watchful eye and will be ready to mobilise at a moment's notice should there be even a breath or a hint that there's any attempt to move the family to a detention centre or to Nauru."

On Monday afternoon, the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) claimed the Government had allowed Baby Asha's mother to speak with lawyers for the first time in three days.

"It's been an emotional few days for the family … [the mother] had been asking to speak with us and we had been asking to speak with her but Border Force was blocking access," HRLC legal advocacy director Daniel Webb said.

Pizzas donated to protesters from all over the country

ASRC chief and founder Kon Karapanagiotidis said it was "just incredible" what people had done. ( Supplied: Twitter/Mums4Refugees )

Baby Asha's case captured the attention of the nation when protesters began rallying outside the Lady Cilento hospital in support of the staff.

Over the 10-day protest, Mr Karapanagiotidis said protesters received a tremendous amount of support from the community, but none more so than on Saturday night.

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Mr Karapanagiotidis sent out a tweet asking for a pizza and, to his and everyone else's surprise, over 250 pizzas were delivered to the hospital over the course of the night.

The pizzas were donated from people all over Australia, including Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Hobart and Melbourne, the ASRC wrote on their Facebook page.

Mr Karapanagiotidis said it was "just beautiful" what people had done.

"It was just beautiful. I think it was people desperate to do something, people wanting to be connected, people nationally wanting to do their bit to show their solidarity and support," he said.

"It was really touching and boosted people's morale and let people know around Australia that people were watching and people were concerned and people wanted to help."

The pizza was shared with emergency staff at Lady Cilento and three carloads were also delivered to local homeless shelters in Brisbane.

"You can care about people seeking asylum and you can care about the staff in the hospital and you can care about our homeless — they're not in competition with each other, you can care for everyone at the same time," Mr Karapanagiotidis said.

"When a few trickled in I was having to ration them to begin with ... but in the end they were coming in 10 at a time.

"Everyone got to have pizza that night."