Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer to comments made by the Minister’s caucus colleague and Labor MP, Julia Irwin, that she is ashamed of Labor’s border protection policies. Does the minister agree with reports over the weekend that:

There is widespread agitation on the Government back bench, for example, over Rudd’s apparent absence of a clear policy to deal with an increase in asylum seekers?

Does the minister agree that the Rudd government is losing the support of its own party over the chaotic handling of its immigration policy?