Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment, representing the Minister for Immigration. Minister, I refer you to comments made by Minister Dutton on Sky News on 19 April, when he was asked what he knew about the Good Friday shootings at Australia's Manus Island detention centre. Minister Dutton responded by saying:

There was an alleged incident where three asylum seekers were alleged to be leading a local five-year-old boy back toward the facility. There was a lot of angst around that …

However, in regard to that event involving a child, senior Papua New Guinea Police inspector David Yapu said:

Nothing has been reported to police. There is no connection to the latest incident [the Good Friday shooting].

It is not related. There is no link at all.

Inspector Yapu confirmed that personally to me when I met him on Manus Island last week. Minister, who is telling the truth, Minister Dutton or the PNG police?