Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We know that this is not an issue Australia faces alone. For example, according to UNHCR estimates, 36,000 people arrived by boat on Italian shores in 2008 and 15,300 in Greece and the Greek Islands. This clearly illustrates that it is a global problem and we need both—

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