Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister confirm to the House that an asylum seeker boat has arrived at Cocos Island carrying a breed of rat that will eat the eggs and kill the chicks of the world's last remaining population of these Cocos buff-banded rail birds? What is the Acting Prime Minister's plan to protect Cocos Island from further biosecurity threats given that four illegal boats have arrived there in less than one month?

Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I cannot confirm that.