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

If that is your ruling, Mr President, I withdraw. The Liberal Party now want to pretend that their policies are compassionate. They are clearly not. The reintroduction of TPVs and the reintroduction of the Pacific solution can in no way be described as compassionate. But they are clearly sensitive to these things, so they want to pretend that their policy of detaining children behind barbed wire was more compassionate than this government’s changes. No-one agrees with them; no-one takes them seriously. (Time expired)