Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Three days before the federal election, a whistleblower called a Perth radio station to confirm that he was working on the construction of single quarters for the Curtin detention centre to increase its accommodation to 3,000 people. He said, ‘We were told not to say anything until after the federal election.’ Will the minister now confirm what is commonly known in WA—that is, that the Curtin base is to be expanded to accommodate 3,000 asylum seekers?