House debates
Monday, 18 November 2013
Questions without Notice
Asylum Seekers
2:49 pm
Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Given the minister's failure to answer my previous question about the allocation of money available for buying back Indonesian boats, why then did the minister confirm in Friday's Australian newspaper that all the money for the boat buybacks had been reallocated? Why is the minister prepared to talk to the newspapers but not to the parliament?
2:50 pm
Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I have already fully answered that question and I refer the shadow minister to my earlier answer.