Mary Fisher (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The Prime Minister visited the Adelaide Hills the day before this decision was announced. Minister Bowen says the Prime Minister did not tell the local community when she was there that it would take 400 asylum seekers because ‘the cabinet had not made a decision when the Prime Minister was there’. Wasn’t the Prime Minister aware that a decision was imminent the day before it was announced, when she was there? Or was the decision made for her— (Time expired)