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

Is that your claim? Of course not. If you fixed it, why did you build an 800-bed detention centre? Because it is a nonsense. We all know that internationally all countries are dealing with unauthorised, irregular movement of people. These come as situations worsen in various countries. We are dealing at the moment with a lot of people fleeing Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. We will continue to run a border protection system that has integrity and that is strong and will meet the challenge of those movements. (Time expired)