Senate debates

Monday, 23 November 2009

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

2:25 pm

Photo of Concetta Fierravanti-WellsConcetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I ask the minister: unless the government has entered into some special deal or arrangement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, how can the minister claim that asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking will be resettled within 12 weeks rather than having to wait for months or years as is usually the case in these circumstances?

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