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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Carr. Is the minister aware of statistics published by the Malay­sian ministry of justice that in the five years between 2005 and 2010 some 29,000 unlaw­ful entrants to Malaysia were subjected to the punishment of caning—an average of 16 floggings per day every day—and that this is the routine penalty, under section 6(3) of the Malaysian Immigration Act, for asylum seekers entering that country? Is the minister also aware that that was one of the consider­ations which the High Court took into account in striking down the so-called Malaysian solution?