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

Yesterday in the House the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship stated that I had taken out of context things said by his ministerial colleagues. The things that I referred to in my question said that Captain Emad, also known as Ali Al Abassi, was on the movement alert list. I refer to the statement made by the Minister for Home Affairs, and I made reference to that in the question. On 8 June 2012, the Minister for Home Affairs gave an interview with Fran Kelly and made reference to the movement alert list. The ministers would be aware that there is only watch list that is run by the government that is called the movement alert list. The Minister for Home Affairs said:

What happens is that we've got a movement alert list. And he's been on that movement alert list, like a number of people across the country, for some time.

Clearly, yesterday it was the minister who was in error, and he was seeking to contradict his own Minister for Home Affairs.

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