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

It is true that not every member of the opposition in this building is a rank hypocrite, because the member for Pearce, Judith Moylan, used a Sky News interview to publicly denounce Mr Abbott's policy and express concerns about what would happen to the asylum seekers left at sea. Here is what Ms Moylan had to say:

I think if we want to build neighbourly relationships we have to use our best diplomatic skills to deal with this and that means engaging with Indonesia, not trying to solve our immediate domestic political problems by pushing people back over in the international waters back to Indonesia.

The other thing is we don't know what happens to those men, women and children on the boats once those boats are pushed back in the water.

So if we're going to cry about deaths at sea, people getting on boats, what are we thinking about when we say well let's push the boats back.

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