Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I do stand by that answer, and I make it very clear that the government anticipates that as we implement the Houston panel recommendations in full we should see these arrival rates drop. The Houston panel recommendations include not only the offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island but the Malaysia transfer arrangements, which, of course, the opposition do not wish to implement. So let us be clear about who is playing politics with this issue. The people who are playing politics with this very complex public policy—