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

Mr President, those opposite want to keep playing politics. While they are playing politics, lives are being lost. People are jumping on unsafe boats in seeking to come to Australia. If they were being returned to Malaysia, the incentive would shut down the people-smuggling business. A Malaysian solution would have seen that trade brought to an end, and yet for nothing but cowardly, manipulative political reasons those opposite are not prepared to introduce it. (Time expired)