Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a further supplementary question, Mr President. I note the minister’s refusal once again to answer the questions. Does the minister now deny that Labor’s policy is encouraging the criminal behaviour of people smugglers, who are luring these families onto rickety boats, putting children’s lives at risk and, to quote one of the minister’s most senior departmental officials, ‘exposing more people to danger’?