Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Carr, Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to the Prime Minister’s statement on radio just three days prior to the federal election, responding to a claim that the Labor government intended to further expand the detention facilities at Curtin Immigration Detention Centre, where she said:

That’s simply not true. No work is planned at Curtin other than the work which is under way now … there are no secret plans.

How does this pre-election statement sit with the minister for immigration’s statement on 17 September:

Additionally, capacity at the existing Curtin Immigration Detention Centre will be expanded in coming months, allowing for up to 1200 single adult men to be housed there.

Isn’t the Prime Minister’s pre-election statement just another example of how this Labor government will blatantly deceive the people of Australia and say anything and do anything just to get elected, without any intention of carrying out its pre-election commitments?