Karen Andrews (McPherson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. I refer to her response in the House yesterday when she said that there was quite a process involved in redesignating Nauru as a regional processing country. A key process is consulting and receiving advice from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Given that the minister admitted that she was made aware of the lapse on 15 December, why did the minister not write to the UNHCR until 27 January? Given the urgency of this situation, why did the minister wait six weeks to do anything?

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