Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I have made clear to the senator on a number of occasions—and as I have made clear to this chamber and to the Australian public in the media for a couple of weeks now—there is no special deal. When we negotiated with the Indonesians for the disembarkation of this group, we put in place arrangements for their handling. That included going to a detention centre in Indonesia and a rejection of their demands to be taken to Australia, but it also included arrangements for their processing to be dealt with by UNHCR. Those arrangements have been put in place.