Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. That is, of course, the focus on push rather than pull. Given the need to accommodate the hundreds of extra asylum seekers as a result of Labor’s softer policies, does the minister agree with his colleague, Mr Danby, that the Christmas Island detention centre is a grandiose waste of money and a white elephant?