James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In 2016-17 20,200 offshore humanitarian visas were granted by this coalition government. What the Greens failed to acknowledge is that this is Australia's largest offshore intake since the early 1980s. The number of special humanitarian places for people with immediate family links in Australia has risen 2,000 per cent from 503 places in 2012 under the Labor-Green government to 10,600 places in 2016-17 under the coalition. Humanitarian places now go to people assessed as the most vulnerable offshore with family in Australia, rather than to people smugglers. This motion is just another stunt by the Greens.