Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps I could remind Senator Cash that the message that we are sending is that we will ensure that those who are plying the people-smuggling trade will be stren­uously opposed. We are, on the other hand, very keen to increase Australia's humani­tarian impact. We are helping improve the treatment of refugees throughout the region, and we are quite genuinely contributing to a regional solution on these issues.

What I can also remind senators opposite is that, under their proposal, 95 per cent of those who ended up in Nauru—