Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Paterson, for the question. I have no intention of announcing a minister's decision—especially when it's a different minister, not me—about a particular immigration matter, in the middle of question time. It would be highly inappropriate to do so. And that's clearly a decision to be made by Minister Burke. I'm not aware of whether he has made that decision yet, but of course he'll evaluate that. But it's an opportune time to remind the chamber of the absolutely disgraceful record of Mr Dutton as the home affairs minister on these matters.