Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, the issues that you've raised aren't relevant to this legislation. I would be happy to arrange for information that'll answer your questions to be provided to you by the minister's office. But, because those issues aren't relevant to this legislation, I don't have the briefing material to address them.

There are a couple of points I would make in response to your points. I think at one point you said that people who are currently on Nauru have been granted citizenship. To my knowledge, that hasn't occurred with any of those people—that they've been granted Australian citizenship. As for the claim that our government is in league with the Greens to bring these people to Australia, in actual fact we have significantly reduced the number of people on Nauru—which I think is a good thing, because they have been there a very, very long time—but the way that has largely been done has been through resettlement in other countries, rather than in Australia. They were just a couple of factual issues that I wanted to correct, and, as I said, I'm happy to arrange for information to be provided to you to address the questions that you were asking.