Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Might I just remind Senator Cash that Indonesia is not a signatory to the international conventions. Your policy position is that you would turn the boats around and tow them out to sea. This is the policy position that you tried to put, Senator, and you try to claim you have got this superior attitude when it comes to human rights. I put it to you, Mr President, that a policy that sees the drowning of people on the high seas is not very humanitarian. That is exactly the policy position of the previous—