Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thoroughly support the policy which this government has announced in relation to offshore processing of people who make asylum claims in relation to Australia. What that means is that people who get to mainland Australia will be processed offshore in exactly the same way that people who arrive on offshore islands do, including islands such as Christmas Island. I may have missed it, but I thought the Labor Party had supported that policy as well. There was the flip and the flop of the Leader of the Opposition, but as I recall it, in relation to islands such as Christmas Island, the Leader of the Opposition, in a previous incarnation, supported that.

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