Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I want to make it clear that the Australian Greens are very disappointed that the chamber has not been able to send a clearer and stronger signal to the government. This is a situation where the government has absolutely refused to come clean on bribing people smugglers and it is behaving in an incredibly arrogant manner. I am glad to see the motion was passed, but, honestly, it would have been good if the Labor Party had been able to be a bit stronger on this. The Labor Party, of course, got themselves into a situation late last week where they did not know whether they were Arthur or Martha on this issue. Here we are, the Greens and the crossbenchers, putting the pressure on the government once again and being the true opposition.