Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to his statement in 2006:

… asylum-seekers should be treated the same regardless of how they land … they should be dealt with … on Australian soil.

and his statement in 2010:

… from our point of view we’ve said that the regional processing centre would need to be for the sake of decency, in a country which is a signatory to the refugee convention.

Given that the minister now wants to send asylum seekers to Malaysia, a country not a signatory to the United Nations convention on refugees, how can he be trusted with a blank cheque from this parliament as he proposed in his legislation this morning?

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