Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator McKim for his question. In the first instance, I would reject 95 per cent of the allegations made in Senator McKim's question. In relation to the closure of the Manus Regional Processing Centre, with Australia's support, Papua New Guinea will close the Manus Regional Processing Centre by 31 October 2017. In relation to the management of services at the regional processing centre, this is a matter for the government of Papua New Guinea, as Senator McKim well knows. In answering this question I remind Senator McKim that, yet again, despite his false bravado, despite his rhetoric, he is responsible, along with the policies of the Australian Greens, when they supported the policies of the former Labor government, for why that Manus Island centre is there. The reason—