Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

What I can say is that the government will abide by the law and apply due process. That is the only appropriate answer to this question. Again I point to the coalition consistently trying to play politics with the asylum seeker issue. We have a record of government applying process, unlike the opposition, who when they were in government used continued political interference in relation to dealing with these matters and brought the government into disrepute at an international scale. In contrast, we will persist in applying the recommendations by the independent expert panel. We call consistently on the coalition to support our approach to the Malaysia arrangement and point to their negligence in not following through the expert panel recommendations and supporting the Malaysia arrangement, which would help solve this problem.