Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

He is not? He must be one of the very unlucky nonfavourites of the Attorney in that case. I am not sure why you are defending him so strongly. Those of your colleagues who are getting a centre do not want to be standing up here and having us say, ‘We told you so months ago,’ in the same way that we are doing here with the bill, because we can see that problems are arising. The information that we got in Senate estimates this week showed that the centres are not able to set up properly, that they are being rushed to start. In poor old Townsville, where they have been hit by the effects of Cyclone Larry, they are being told that they have to open in a tent, if that is what it takes to be open by 1 July—

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