Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator for the question. It is correct to say that I am not a regular member of the NSC. But that would mislead, if you are referring to the meeting where this matter was discussed, because on that and other occasions relating to immigration matters I have gone to the meetings. Did I at a point yesterday leave the party room to attend a citizenship ceremony? Yes, I did. It was quite appropriate to do so because the citizenship ceremony was being held on World Refugee Day. What were we doing on World Refugee Day? We were making people who had come here under our refugee and humanitarian program—