Senate debates

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Questions without Notice: Additional Answers

Asylum Seekers

3:00 pm

Photo of Chris EvansChris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | | Hansard source

Mr President, I would like to add to an answer I gave to Senator Hanson-Young when she asked me about average processing times for asylum claims on Christmas Island. The figure, I have been advised, is now 111 days as the average. I also want to correct the record when I had a crack about the University of Newcastle doing the research. It was actually the University of Wollongong. I apologise to the authors.