Jim Molan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Madam Acting Deputy President; and, Senator, thank you for your intervention. Here are the issues. The issues really are that the Australian people support Operation Sovereign Borders. Manus and Nauru is tough, tough policy. We acknowledge that. I have never met anyone who wants to keep people on Nauru and Manus. We are doing our best, through the US policy at the moment, to move people off Manus Island. Offshore processing is tough policy. There are no boats. There have been no successful boat missions and there have been no deaths because we turned them back—exactly that. We turned them back and they went back whence they came. That is the success.

Honourable senators interjecting—