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

Your suggestion that Minister Bowen has lost his moral moorings, from a party whose idea of moorings is to send boats back out to sea, is beyond any possible imagination of moral compass. What we have is a party that is firmly committed to putting people back into harm's way by sending boats back out to sea. How can you possibly claim that you have got an interest in human rights? Your policy on Nauru saw the gross abuse of people on that island and saw enormous pain being inflicted on people on that island—a country that had not signed up to the UN conventions and had no interest in the UN conventions until very recently. Your interest in human rights is very short lived and very recent. It is not going to be a position that we will take any notice of coming from the likes of— (Time expired)