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

( ) ( ): My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, if the Minister for Home Affairs's office and your office were advised on 15 December last year that the designation of Nauru as a regional processing centre had lapsed in October, why wasn't the issue dealt with on that day, given that parliament was sitting on 15 December?

Opposition members interjecting —

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! There is far too much noise. The question has been asked, and I give the call to the Minister for Home Affairs.

Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As the shadow minister for home affairs well knows, there's quite a process to redesignate Nauru as a regional processing country. We actually went through it all yesterday—you'd probably be aware of that. Quite a lot of documentation and consultation would have needed to occur, which did occur. I respect the questions of the shadow minister for home affairs, but I'd also point out that we did deal with this yesterday and Nauru has been redesignated.