Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Will the minister confirm that the assessment time lines and support offered to those asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking differ from those offered to all other asylum seekers in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world? Why can’t the minister simply acknowledge that it was in fact a special offer made to the queue jumpers to get them off the Oceanic Viking?