Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

The Gillard government is the only party in this chamber committed to stopping people drowning at sea at the hands of people smugglers. It is the only party in this chamber committed to that—with apologies to the Greens. We asked three experts—Angus Houston, Paris Aristotle and Michael L'Estrange—to come back to us with a plan. The Houston report contains 22 recommendations, a suite of measures which the experts believe, once implemented as a whole, will drive down the number of people risking their life at sea.