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

As I have said in response to the honourable member’s questions yesterday and today, the border protection committee of the cabinet has responsibility operationally for the handling of these matters. I said also, in response to the honourable member’s question yesterday, that my own staff, together with the staff of other ministers and officials from my own department and officials from other ministers’ departments, are active in that committee, a committee which is chaired under normal circumstances by the immigration minister. That is how it operates; that is how it is extended here.

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