Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. Is the minister aware of Senator Feeney’s statement yesterday, ‘We reached an accommodation’—and he then went on with the standard spin—‘not with the occupants of that vessel but with the Indonesian government’? Will the minister confirm that this is a clear admission that there was a special deal applicable to those on the Oceanic Viking?