John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I give Senator Wong 10 out of 10 for persistence, but the effectiveness is very little. So what do we do? Do we continue on and process them in Australia while costing Australian taxpayers? This is a real issue, not only about the lives that are being lost at sea. What is it costing our country? A billion dollars a year! We look for money for aged-care facilities. My mother is in an aged-care facility, and I talk to the people who go around aged-care facilities—

Senator Wong interjecting—