Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I agree with the minister's earlier comment that the asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru have been there too long. I agree with him on that. But you have been in power for three years and you have failed to find a durable third-party resettlement option. Minister, yesterday you said:

We have been working around the world with third countries to try and find options … every day we get closer to it.

I note you have not done it in the last three years you have been in power. There has been three years of doing nothing. Where are the negotiations up to? Who are you negotiating with? Which countries? Have you been working with the UNHCR? You have given us no details about that today. If you have been negotiating, in what manner? When will you tell the public what you are actually doing and when will we get these people into durable third-party countries?

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