House debates Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

Tuesday, 20 September 2011 House of Representatives

Chris Bowen

Chris Bowen McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

2:14 pm

Will we see more cheap hypocrisy from the Leader of the Opposition? Let the honourable Leader of the Opposition stand at the dispatch box with his hand on his heart and say that he stayed awake at night worrying about the people we sent to Nauru, because they were not going to a refugee convention signatory country. Let him stand at the dispatch box and argue that it is okay to send people to Zimbabwe, the Republic of Congo and Iran, as the member for Cook would like to do, because they are refugee convention signatory countries. We all know the Leader of the Opposition is a weathervane, but the weathervane always points to his own political interest and not the national interest.

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