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

There are over 5,000 people who have arrived in Australia by boat to seek asylum since 2013, and over 2,000 of that 5,000 were never actually transferred to either Manus Island or Nauru. People from the same country arrived on the same boat at the same time, and they were separated to totally different futures by completely arbitrary decisions. Why are some of them now worthy of permanent protection in Australia while others remain abandoned in offshore detention?