Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for identifying the area to which it should have been directed. There are 50,000 active cases in the AAT's Migration and Refugee Division, with 43 per cent more applications over the last year. In the refugee division, an increasing number of cases are being overturned. I acknowledge that last month the government made a host of new part-time appointments but, given there are tens of thousands of appellants waiting to be sent home for Christmas, when will the government put an end to the bloated bureaucracy bogged by refugee advocates gaming the system? (Time expired)