Shadow Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has expressed concerns over a “big hole” left in Australia’s security before the reinstatement of Nauru as a regional processing centre.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said during Question Time she was advised about Nauru on December 15.
“That date was absolutely news to me because in that briefing on the Monday … I specifically asked questions about the timing and was not given a date other than late December,” Ms Andrews told commentator Steve Price. “For the Minister to go in post-Question Time and make a statement where she said that I had been advised on the 15th of December and that it was late, or words to that effect – but she said I was specifically advised on the 15th of December – was untrue.”
Ms Andrews added it was “extraordinary” for a minister to go into the House and make a statement that was “untrue”.
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