Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer again to the minister’s interview with Fran Kelly in which the minister admitted there were negotiations with asylum seekers: ‘It is about giving them the confidence to come off the Oceanic Viking’—in other words, a special deal. When will the government stop its endless use of spin to admit that a special deal was indeed done for those on the Oceanic Viking?