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

My question is to Minister Cash, representing the immigration minister. Minister, I refer you to the immigration minister's decision to settle a class action based on the illegal detention and failure of duty of care brought by 1,905 Manus Island detainees—people who have suffered a shocking loss of their freedoms, who have had their families torn apart and who have lost all hope for the future because of decisions taken by you and your government and your Labor predecessors. People have died, been seriously injured, come under machine gun fire and suffered permanent harm because of choices made by the Labor and Liberal Parties. Isn't today's settlement an admission that you are responsible for the ongoing harm of the detainees on Manus Island and Nauru?