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

Yesterday, in question time, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, in response to a question of mine, said there was no indefinite suspension as I questioned him and said I was wrong—his quote was, 'You are wrong.' He also invited me in his response to check the facts. I can inform the House that I have checked the facts with the chief migration officer of the Papua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority, who advised me that the suspension was in place for transfers of asylum seekers to Manus Island. That suspension is in place now, as the Papua New Guinea government understands it. I was misrepresented by the minister—

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