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

My question is to Senator Cash, the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister Dutton has decided that Australia's Manus Island immigration prison will close in just 15 days. I note that the men you have detained there for over 4½ years remain your government's responsibility, as has been made clear on numerous occasions by the UNHCR and by Minister Dutton, when he said just last week in regard to offering transfer to Nauru: 'We,'—that is, we, Minister—'are putting these options on the table.'

Is it still your intention to close your Manus Island prison on 31 October? What will you do with the many hundreds of our fellow human beings who have suffered so greatly at your hands and the hands of the Labor Party? Where will they sleep? Will they have access to adequate medical care after 31 October?