House debates Matters of Public Importance

Tuesday, 20 September 2011 House of Representatives

Chris Bowen

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

3:47 pm

As I said in question time, if the opposition has really had a change of heart here—as I say, I accept and understand that political parties are entitled to change their point of view—it could move an amendment to the relevant 'turn back the boat' section of the Migration Act to say, 'You can only turn back the boats if they are going to end up in a signatory country.'

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