Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, Reza Barati, Sayed Ibrahim Hussein, Hamid Kehazaei, Omid Masoumali, Rakib, Kamil Hussain, Faysal Ishak Ahmed and Hamed Shamshiripour—these are eight asylum seekers who have died in Australia as a result of their mistreatment on Manus Island and Nauru. Does the government concede that, regardless of what policies were implemented in the past, their policy—the Liberal Party's policy—right now is responsible for the deaths of these innocent people and destroying the lives of many more?

If the minister won't acknowledge that then how else, Minister, do you explain the deaths of these innocent people?