Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

It is again another excellent question; when you are digging a hole, just keep digging, Senator. I thank my colleague, Senator Carr for this: what happened on the weekend in the Australian Financial Review? The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, was asked about this very issue. What was his response? Scott Morrison refused to outline how the policy would be implemented except to say it would 'not violate the territorial integrity of Indonesia's waters'. Your own policy has been shredded not once or twice, but you do not even have the guts to stand up and tell the truth to the Australian people that your policy cannot work. It goes even to Mr Michael Keenan, who has said that the boats will be turned back to Indonesian ports. This is what he actually said— (Time expired)