Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that, on the minister’s own admission, this policy is not able to control the flow of boats across the Timor Sea to Australia—it cannot even prevent boats from reaching the Australian mainland or Christmas Island before being detected—is it not time to change this policy and put in place a policy that actually discourages people from leaving Indonesia, rather than waiting until they get to Australian waters before acting?