Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Carr. I refer to the report released by the Commonwealth Ombudsman on 3 February 2011 in which the Ombudsman finds:

There are too many people being detained at the Christmas Island immigration detention facilities and the current scale of operations on the geographically remote island are not sustainable.

Does the minister agree that this is a disgraceful and inhumane situation of which the government should be ashamed and that it is solely a result of the government’s failed border protection policies?