Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

As the member who asked the question well knows, the government is implementing the recommendations of the Houston review, to deal with refugee and asylum seeker issues, as the opposition continues with its relentless negativity, opposing the recommendations of those very eminent Australians. And whenever they are asked how they will vote on these recommendations they effectively say that they will vote for more boats to come to our country. So if the member is genuinely concerned about asylum seeker boats then he could use his voice in this parliament—

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