David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

These are countries throughout the world that are signatories to the convention. Are we seriously expected to believe that simply because they are signatories to the convention that they somehow will be venues for offshore processing in the future that can guarantee the safety of individuals who might be sent there? And that is in the absence of any particular arrangement such as the one that we have been able to enter into with Malaysia.

Mr Hawke interjecting—

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