Senate debates

Monday, 16 November 2009

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

2:26 pm

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

There are other persons who have been mandated, as I understand it, in Indonesia. I do not have the figures with me, but it is true to say that over the last few years Australia and other resettlement countries have resettled in the order of 1,300 persons who have been found to be refugees inside Indonesia, and we have resettled the largest number of that group. I think we have resettled in the order of 460 to 500, but I will try and find the figure for you. Many of those were, of course, resettled under the previous government. So, yes, we have made a commitment to resettlement out of Indonesia. We have been working with them to improve the time frames—

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