Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Integration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

The answer referred to two further points: firstly, the extraordinary waste of money in funding a centre at Christmas Island that we then do not use; and, secondly, the fact that last time we were told people from Nauru would never come to Australia more than 1,000 of them were either living in Australia or in New Zealand with the right to enter Australia.

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