Senate debates

Tuesday, 13 June 2006

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

2:24 pm

Photo of Amanda VanstoneAmanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It seems extraordinary to me that the grant of 42 protection visas against the wishes of the Indonesian government can be classed as appeasement. But then I saw who made that interjection and I thought, ‘Yes, you are intellectually capable of coming to that conclusion. You are intellectually capable of deciding that giving 42 visas to the West Papuan Indonesians against the wishes of the Indonesian government should be classified as appeasement.’ You take the cake!

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