Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The key point I am trying to make is that the report sought to give effect to two key principles, in my view. One is the no-advantage principle, which is that there be no advantage, in seeking to come here by boat, over the processing arrangements that would apply more generally before people undertook that journey, and the other is the principle that we ought to be hard-headed but not hard-hearted.