Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Integration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday in question time the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship alleged to be quoting a Sky News interview. He accurately represented the question and said:

The reply from Mr Burke was:

I just don’t believe this is part of the equation. I just don’t believe that Nauru is part of the equation.

I went and got a copy of the transcript. The first sentence of that reply appears halfway through the answer. The second sentence does not appear at all. My reply to that question was:

I’ve got to tell you I don’t believe for one minute that the refugee camps around the world are getting news about the latest practice of how we have treated the eighty three asylum seekers from Sri Lanka. I just don’t believe that is part of the equation.

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