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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to the statement by former Western Australian Labor Premier Geoff Gallop last Friday when he said, 'I'd be talking to the Liberals about getting Nauru to work; I think that is the only sustainable position'. If a respected former Labor Premier, along with many members of the Labor caucus, admits that the coalition's Nauru option is the only sustainable position to recommence offshore processing, why doesn't the government accept its own colleagues' advice?