House debates Questions without Notice

Immigration

Tuesday, 20 June 2006 House of Representatives

Kim Beazley

Kim Beazley Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

2:00 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that for more than six weeks more than 20 important fact sheets have been removed from the immigration department’s website, including ‘Immigration: the background’, ‘Key facts in immigration’, ‘Processing priorities’, ‘Seeking asylum within Australia’ and ‘Immigration detention’? Isn’t it the case that, of the total number of fact sheets, more than half relate to matters to be debated under the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006? Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that the government is keeping Indonesia more informed than the Australian people during this debate?

John Howard

John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

The answer is no.