Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

So it was temporarily taken off the table. Maybe that is why they came on bigger boats—the member for Cook’s grand plan. The member for Cook was caught out in his little tricky game this morning on the ABC. He was trying to claim that temporary protection visas reduced the number of people arriving in Australia by boat. He was caught out in this claim, and he had to admit that the number of people went up in 2001. He had to admit that, and now he admits it again today.

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