Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. What is the minister’s reaction to the claim that up to nine humans who sought asylum in Australia, were sent to Nauru and then returned to Afghanistan by this government have been killed and that two more have been attacked and had their children killed? Does the government accept that this tragic news means that they were wrong to reject these people’s claims or does the minister stand by her claim reported on the ABC news last night that their asylum claims failed, they accepted a $2,000 repatriation payment to return and the government has no further obligations? Will the minister now commit to investigating the tragedies unearthed by the Edmund Rice Centre?