Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer the Prime Minister to the 255 asylum seekers on board a boat in the port of Merak and the statement made by them yesterday:

… we are the same as the 78 on the Oceanic Viking. We are refugees and should be treated equally …

Under the Prime Minister’s new fast-track access policy will he now offer what he himself has described as a standard and thoroughly ‘non-extraordinary’ deal to the asylum seekers on board the boat in the port of Merak; and, if he does not propose to do so, could he tell the House why?

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