Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

Minister, offshore detention is one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters in Australia's story. Unless we have a royal commission, with its independence, with its transparency, with its rigour, with its public hearings and powers to compel evidence and testimony, how are we ever going to write the conclusion to that chapter? Don't you agree that the matters you've just outlined are too narrowly scoped and will ultimately result in a cover-up, not the answers we need? (Time expired)