Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister representing the immigration minister, Senator Cash. Senator, I refer you to the humanitarian crises your government has created on Manus Island and Nauru. Do you agree that neither Manus Island nor Nauru are safe for the people Australia has imprisoned there, and that the United States deal, which has been trumpeted by your government, has been exposed by Prime Minister Turnbull in his conversation with Donald Trump as a sham? Are you aware of Hamed Shamshiripour, who was found dead this week, after being held and tortured for years in Australia's prison on Manus Island? Why was he abandoned and left to suffer in Australia's prison on Manus Island? Why was he denied medical care by the Australian government? Why was he not brought to Australia? And are you happy with the outcome you have helped achieve there?