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

I thank the honourable member for his question. In fairness, the honourable member has criticised me in recent weeks about this event, which I acknowledge. It appears that the honourable member for Cook, if he were to hold the office that I hold, would ignore the advice of the Australian Federal Police that it would have been unsafe for the Australian Federal Police to get on the roof to remove the detainees who were protesting.

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