Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister has told the Senate that the purpose of the extra patrol boats in northern waters is to control and manage arrivals. If that is the case, how does he explain the fact that a number of arrival vessels have actually reached the waters of Christmas Island before being detected, including the boat that arrived on Monday? How is that controlling or managing in any way these arrivals?