Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Brandis, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Attorney, the United States has agreed to consider accepting refugees currently detained on Manus Island and Nauru. Given that this deal creates the possibility of people who sought asylum by attempting to come to Australia by boat being resettled in a durable way in a developed nation, will you now admit that the government's entire policy of deterrence was based on a myth? Will you admit that your government's deliberate harm of men, women and children was actually for political purposes, not humanitarian purposes? Will you apologise to the people you have deliberately harmed and will you do the right thing by settling all of them, genuine refugees or not, here in Australia?