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

We were not negotiating the conditions upon which they came off. The conditions were an agreement between us and the Indonesian government. They were codified and they did not change. The conditions agreed between the Indonesian government and the Australian government were made public. They were expressed to those on the boat. They took some time to make the decision to come off, but there were no changes in the conditions of that agreement. They eventually chose to accept that that was what would happen to them when they came off the boat and they came off. They did not come to Australia as they sought to. They disembarked in Indonesia as we required. (Time expired)