House debates

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Personal Explanations

3:49 pm

Photo of Philip RuddockPhilip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

During question time the Prime Minister suggested that during my tenure as minister for immigration Australia did not work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and by implication did not honour its international obligations to refugees. Never while I was minister did Australia refoule a person found to be a refugee and, further, Australia at that time funded and worked very closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as evidenced by the fact that the testing of the claims by those people found on the Tampa were undertaken by the UNHCR.

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