Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water) Share this | Hansard source

He does. I will take that intervention from Senator Polley. That is one of the problems of the current Leader of the Opposition. He gets advice but he refuses to follow it. He gets the advice from the Solicitor-General that there are significant legal doubts as a result of the High Court decision in respect of Nauru but he refuses to accept that advice. Of course, we have seen what he says about the advice of climate scientists about what is happening in terms of global warming. He rejects that. He just has one mantra, and the mantra is: stop the boats. A simple solution: stop the boats.

The Nauru solution will not stop the boats. The boats will still keep coming unless we get the opposition to see sense here, unless they start taking advice, both the legal advice that we now have from the Solicitor-General—which has been provided to you; you wanted some information from us, Senator Humphries; we have provided you the legal advice—