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

Just for the sake of my colleagues I think it is important to remind them that the question comes from the senator who did a press conference asking whether Immigration was responsible for someone being tipped over a balcony and coming to some harm in Sydney airport. She then later announced she did not really know whether there were Immigration people involved or not and the only reason she did it was it seemed a good thing to do.

The Burmese people have been there for six weeks. That is a very short period of time. I understand the doomsayers want to go out and predict doom and gloom in advance, but they have been there for a very short time. We are doing everything we can to resolve that issue. When I have some more to say on that I will say it.