House debates Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

Monday, 16 March 2015 House of Representatives

Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

2:40 pm

Labor has now had, as a result of the member for Sydney's comments on the weekend, 13 different positions since 2007. Firstly, they proposed to abolish TPVs and abandoned the Pacific solution; they extended appeal rights and legal assistance in November 2008; they had the East Timor solution, which famously, some indicated would result in people jumping the fence to get into the detention centres, not to get out; they had the Afghan return solution; they had—one of my favourites!—the Malaysian people swap, the five-for-one deal, which was a complete outrage and abrogation of responsibility, but that is what we expected from Labor; they had Manus Island mark 1; they had the Houston expert panel in August 2012; they had the PNG arrangement in July 2013.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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