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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report finds that Christmas Island is overloaded and that asylum seekers are living in unacceptable conditions. This contradicts comments made by Minister Bowen on 3 February 2011 that they are not. Who is correct: the Ombudsman, whose findings are based on observations during two years of periodic inspections, or Minister Bowen?