Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The last words I used before you intervened to deal with the opposition were that I am not going to play a political game with the opposition about this today. The fact that this is all a political game for them was then verified by the interjection of the member for Indi. What this government will do is send a strong message to people smugglers that they cannot represent that they can get people to Australia, because when they make that representation the people they are making it to are at risk of being taken to Malaysia and ending up at the back of the queue.

I can also say to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that, with our increase of 4,000 in the humanitarian intake, I bet some of them are children. She like might like to explain why the Leader of the Opposition is opposing that intake.

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