Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, the member for Melbourne Ports, under standing order 99. I refer to his comments in 2008 following an inspection of the Christmas Island detention facilities conducted in the work of the committee’s inquiry, where he referred to these facilities as a grandiose waste of money, saying that they resembled a stalag and that it looked like an enormous white elephant. Given that under the government’s policies Christmas Island is now bursting at the seams with 1,800 people in detention, with the last boat carrying 181 passengers—

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