Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, genuine refugees—from Malaysia. My understanding is that the vast bulk of these people are from the country of Burma, that prison state. Those people currently in Malaysia are genuinely in the queue and have been waiting for long periods of time to be resettled to Australia. They will get the benefit of our solution, which they would not get under any opposition proposal.

Going back and looking at the Nauru proposal, what else do we know about it? The government released the Solicitor-General's legal advice and provided special briefings to the Leader of the Opposition. But he continues to ignore the facts explained in that legal advice.