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

This question has been asked in a number of forms before, and I think you can tell it is the night after the Press Gallery ball. To the member who asked the question, what I say to him is we are a government that sought expert advice from an independent panel—the former Chief of the Defence Force, a foreign policy expert and a refugee expert—and we brought proposals to the parliament and the member who asked the question voted for more boats.

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