Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

There is no special deal. What there is is an agreement with the Indonesian government about how we will process those persons who come off the Oceanic Viking. As the senator would know, if she had read the documentation which we released publicly, we indicated that that time frame for processing applied not to asylum seekers but to people who have already been found to be refugees by the UNHCR. That applied to people who are already classified by the UNHCR as refugees and who have been determined as in need of resettlement. So the senator’s question is misleading.