Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am unaware of such advice. I say to the honourable gentleman, the Leader of the Opposition, that I am sure that those engaged in the vile trade of people-smuggling would be conveying any sort of message to those who are the victims of their trade around the world in order to encourage their trade. Whether or not that information is accurate, that is the sort of dissimulation and disinformation in which people smugglers would engage. They do not represent an honourable profession. They represent a dishonourable profession which trades in lies, so it would not surprise me what people smugglers said to anyone at any time in any place in order to increase their trade.

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