Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection and it concerns the fate of over 700 men in the Manus Island camp, most of whom have been found to be refugees. Two weeks ago the PNG Attorney-General said his country would not allow you to simply close the detention centre on 31 October and leave the men behind for PNG to look after. It's been revealed in the Senate that last Friday you flew to PNG to meet with Prime Minister O'Neill to discuss the crisis. Have you struck a deal with PNG? If so, what's in the deal? And in what country will the men be resettled? Or is your plan just to leave these men in limbo, create a powder-keg situation and then use force and violence against them?

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