Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McKim, no matter how much you scream in this place, no matter how disgracefully you act as a senator of this place in another country as a guest of another country, you cannot change the fact that there are no people in detention there on Manus Island. You have clearly learnt nothing over the last six years about the consequences of your policies. We have spent six years working with the Papua New Guinea government—and, again, that was reinforced today—to clean up your mess. Again I will say: there is nobody in detention on Manus Island. No matter how badly you behave in someone else's country, as a guest of their country, that does not change the facts as they sit. I've gone through this several times today in this chamber.