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

The government has made it perfectly clear that we are pursuing a policy to ensure that we actually break the criminal syndicates that are seeking to take advantage of people's suffering and we are seeking to do all we can to stop the boats arriving. We want to ensure that there are appropriate offshore arrangements that will provide sufficient deterrence for those who would ply the trade. The government do not resile from the position it has put. As far as we are concerned, there is no issue that Nauru would not be a satisfactory destination for that type of processing, that there would in fact be—