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

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Brandis, representing the Prime Minister. Minister, I refer you to the humanitarian calamity that your government has created on Manus Island, by two weeks ago cutting off drinking water, food, electricity and medication from over 600 people. A few days ago, Papua New Guinea police entered the camp and overturned the rubbish bins that detainees had been using to contain their drinking water. Only an hour ago, Papua New Guinea immigration officials re-entered the camp and bored holes in those rubbish bins so that they could no longer be used to collect water. Will you immediately restore the essentials of life to the people you are responsible for in the Manus Island detention centre? Will you evacuate them as soon as possible to Australia or to a safe third country such as New Zealand?