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

Today in question time the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship quoted me as saying that 47,000 applications for protection visas that were made offshore in Australian missions and with Australian officials around the world, or the tens of thousands of other applications that are made for skill visas and others, would not be reviewable by the High Court. The comments were made in relation to the decision by the High Court last week. The minister implied that this statement was untrue and that in fact applications made by people offshore for visas were reviewable by the High Court. I simply make this statement, by way of explanation—

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