Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer to the minister’s ABC interview with Fran Kelly this morning, in which he tried to draw a distinction between doing a special deal ‘with’ the asylum seekers and doing a special deal ‘for’ the asylum seekers with Indonesia. Is the minister seriously trying to tell the Senate that this fatuous distinction is the basis for the government’s repeated denials that a special deal has been done?