House debates

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Matters of Public Importance

Border Protection

4:05 pm

Photo of Stephen SmithStephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

A journalist asked:

Does Indonesia need more money do you think?

Malcolm Turnbull said:

Well you’d have to ask Mr Rudd that or the Indonesians that.

Then a journalist asked the question about the changes that Mr Turnbull has referred to. They said:

… you don’t want to bring back a Pacific Solution. So where exactly do you stand on this?

Malcolm Turnbull said:

Well where we stand is to hold the Government to account.

In other words, the Liberal Party say on the one hand that the entire cause of this difficulty are the three changes that the government made when it came to office, which were taking women and children from behind razor wire in detention centres like Baxter, abolishing the system of temporary protection visas and abolishing the Pacific island solution. You say that the abolition of those three things are the sum total—

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