Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

All they want to do is play politics with this issue. On this very day, after we have seen another significant tragedy, with people dying at sea, their priority is to come in here and run these sorts of tawdry political lines. What we on this side of the House want to see and what the Australian people want to see is a genuine solution to this problem. They want to see a solution which looks at the humanitarian concerns. They do not want to see people dying at sea. They want to see a government that can put in place policies which break the people smugglers' model, and we know very clearly that Nauru does not do that, which is why we have always sought a genuine regional solution and we will continue to support a genuine regional solution. They can continue to play politics, but we are not going to see them there.

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