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

As I made clear, the arrangement between the two governments provided a time frame in which the claims would be assessed. That was agreed between the two governments as a means of resolving the situation of these people disembarking in Indonesia and the Indonesians’ interests in making sure that arrangements were satisfactory to them and satisfactory to Australia. Of course there are variances in time frames regarding asylum claims all around the world.