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

Mr President, if I have said something unparliamentary, of course I withdraw. I was actually paying Senator Scullion a compliment, but his colleagues objected. We made very clear that the arrangements for processing of those people who were on the Oceanic Viking were a result of an agreement between the two governments to deal with the circumstances where we had rescued these people at sea.