Senate debates
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Questions without Notice
Asylum Seekers
2:53 pm
Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source
I am confident that the Prime Minister regularly corresponds with and talks to Mr Jones. But, leaving that to one side, the case that the honourable senator is referencing has been comprehensively reviewed—not just by the government but by several courts—ever since they arrived here, without a visa, by boat, illegally, in 2012, and they've been found not to be valid refugees. They've been found not to be asylum seekers. In fact, every court up to the High Court—
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