Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is the minister aware that Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the UN has stated that he does not think the Sri Lankan citizens on the Oceanic Viking are refugees ‘unless you use that expression in a rather loose manner’? Given this, does the Rudd government intend to continue its policy of offering bribes to the vast majority of those who have refused to leave the Oceanic Viking?