Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, how much will you spend—and will that be real taxpayer’s money or hypothetical taxpayer’s money—in keeping Nauru open for your offshore processing? Isn’t it the case that either these people will be left to rot in Nauru or you will have to let them back into Australia, as has been the case for some 60 per cent of those who have been processed offshore already?