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

I find the opposition’s concern for children in detention breathtaking, because this is a newly found concern. Where were the opposition when they had 1,923 children behind razor wire in detention camps—not in community detention, not in alternative places of detention like with this government but locked up behind razor wire in camps. This is the Liberal opposition whose current policy is to bundle them all up, try to find a third-country island and send those children back into detention. That is your policy now: ship them off to a third country, find an island and lock those kids up again. This government proudly states, ‘We do not lock kids up in detention centres.’ As I indicated the other day, this attack is morally bankrupt. (Time expired)