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

I understand that the 22 taken off the Oceanic Viking have been housed in a separate section of the detention centre to the other detainees. That is a decision of the Indonesian government. These people have been detained by them in an Indonesian facility under Indonesian law. I make the point in passing that we do the same thing when we disembark a group at Christmas Island. We actually keep them separate while the interview processes occur, and I remind you that the Howard government, when in power, did exactly the same thing; it processed groups off boats separately. So it is common practice (Time expired)