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

The Malaysian Minister for Home Affairs made it very clear in his view. He asked:

Are you telling me Malaysia is so bad that we are worse than the human traffickers?

That is clearly what the opposition are now implying, that Malaysia is such a terrible place that it would be better to put these people in the hands of the people smugglers. You ask yourself what level of hypocrisy senators opposite will sink to, and there is clearly no bottom to the pit in which you will fall.