Parliament for Refugees:

The Australian Greens

Mr Michael Organ, Member for Cunningham

• Remember that word, Mr Speaker - indefinitely
• "asylum seekers ... treated more harshly than criminals"
• "Ruddock's actions have stained our nation's reputation..."

Australian Labor Party

The Hon Dick Adams, Member for Lyons

Mr Anthony Albanese, Member for Grayndler

"I don't support mandatory detention"

The Hon Kim Beazley, Member for Brand

"Beazley has no intention of rocking the boat on mandatory detention"

The Hon Arch Bevis, Member for Brisbane

The Hon Laurie Brereton, Member for Kingsford Smith

• Pacific Solution: an election stunt and a massive waste of taxpayer's money

Ms Anna Burke, Member for Chisholm

"....I oppose mandatory detention, I support mandatory detention..."

Mr Anthony Byrne, Member for Holt

Ms Ann Corcoran, Member for Isaacs

Mr David Cox, Member for Kingston

The Hon Simon Crean, Member for Hotham

The Hon Janice Crosio, Member for Prospect

Mr Michael Danby, Member for Melbourne Ports

The Hon Graham Edwards, Member for Cowan

Ms Annette Ellis, Member for Canberra

Dr Craig Emerson, Member for Rankin

The wedge-master is at it again

Mr Martyn Evans, Member for Bonython

Mr Laurie Ferguson, Member for Reid

Mr Martin Ferguson, Member for Batman

Mr Joel Fitzgibbon, Member for Hunter

Ms Jennie George, Member for Throsby

Mr Steve Gibbons, Member for Bendigo

Ms Julia Gillard, Member for Lalor

Ms Sharon Grierson, Member for Newcastle

Mr Alan Griffin, Member for Bruce

Ms Jill Hall, Member for Shortland

Mr Michael Hatton, Member for Blaxland

Ms Kelly Hoare, Member for Charlton

Mrs Julia Irwin, Member for Fowler

Ms Sharryn Jackson, Member for Hasluck

Mr Harry Jenkins, Member for Scullin

The Hon Duncan Kerr, Member for Denison

Standing by Carmen Lawrence over asylum seekers

Ms Catherine King, Member for Ballarat

Mr Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa

Topsy-turvy stats: "90% of refugees who have their applications rejected, abscond"

The Hon Dr Carmen Lawrence, Member for Fremantle

• Resigning from the front bench: Cry from the heart
• Ideas to save our withering democracy: a manifesto
• President of the ALP
• Fear and Denial in Public Policy
• What is social justice?
• Carmen and the Issues that matter
• The plight of the Mandaeans in Oz
• Fatima Erfani: why did she die?

Ms Kirsten Livermore, Member for Capricornia

Ms Jenny Macklin, Member for Jagajaga

Mr Robert McClelland, Member for Barton

Ms Jann McFarlane, Member for Stirling

The Hon Leo McLeay, Member for Watson

Mr Bob McMullan, Member for Fraser

Mr Daryl Melham, Member for Banks

Mr Frank Mossfield, Member for Greenway

Mr John Murphy, Member for Lowe

Ms Michelle O'Byrne, Member for Bass

Mr Brendan O'Connor, Member for Burke

Mr Gavan O'Connor, Member for Corio

Ms Tanya Plibersek, Member for Sydney

• The Howard government must be removed as soon as possible
• "the most expensive system for dealing with refugees - locking them up"

The Hon Roger Price, Member for Chifley

• Parliamentary committee investigating detention conditions for asylum seekers

Mr Harry Quick, Member for Franklin

"mandatory detention is traumatic, inhumane and totally un-Australian"

Mr Bernie Ripoll, Member for Oxley

Ms Nicola Roxon, Member for Gellibrand

Shocked by the audacity of the Howard Government's approach

Mr Kevin Rudd, Member for Griffith

Mr Rodney Sawford, Member for Port Adelaide

The Hon Con Sciacca, Member for Bowman

Mr Bob Sercombe, Member for Maribyrnong

Mr Sid Sidebottom, Member for Braddon

Mr Stephen Smith, Member for Perth

The Hon Warren Snowdon, Member for Lingiari

• Wilson Tuckey doubts Snowdon's support for detention policies
• "...been calling for special humanitarian visas for the Timorese..."
• Strong links with the East Timorese....

Mr Wayne Swan, Member for Lilley

Mr Lindsay Tanner, Member for Melbourne

• Labor must rekindle the flames of idealism...
• Bananas In Pyjamas Behind the Razor Wire

Mr Kelvin Thomson, Member for Wills

Ms Maria Vamvakinou, Member for Calwell

Mr Kim Wilkie, Member for Swan

Mr Christian Zahra, Member for McMillan

Country Liberal Party

Mr David Tollner, Member for Solomon

Independent

Mr Peter Andren, Member for Calare

• "...appalled at continuing bald-faced lies being told by Downer..."
• "Daoed trial could reveal SIEV X for the tragic deception that it was..."

 The Hon Robert Katter, Member for Kennedy

• Fear-mongering: "...there's nothing to stop millions of people coming here..."

Mr Tony Windsor, Member for New England

Liberal Party of Australia

 The Hon Tony Abbott, Member for Warringah

• "People [....] who pay smugglers are not asylum seekers"
• casting dispersions on "people who destroy their identity documents"
• Master of the hard choice: Commander Howard runs aground
• the back door 'illegals' take the place of 'politically correct' refugees

The Hon Neil Andrew, Member for Wakefield

The Hon Kevin Andrews, Member for Menzies

The Hon Fran Bailey, Member for McEwen

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

The Hon Bruce Baird, Member for Cook

• How low can Ruddock go?
• Backbench upset over decision to deport Timorese
• released from detention if claim not processed within 14 weeks
• "TPV holders not sent back to war or persecution and given long-term Australian future"

Mr Bob Baldwin, Member for Paterson

Mr Phillip Barresi, Member for Deakin

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mr Kerry Bartlett, Member for Macquarie

Mr Bruce Billson, Member for Dunkley

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

The Hon Bronwyn Bishop, Member for Mackellar

The Hon Julie Bishop, Member for Curtin

 The Hon Mal Brough, Member for Longman

• Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter
• "On the kids overboard, well, Mal is just trying to defend the indefensible."
• "...once you've been to the refugee review tribunal, that is final."

The Hon Alan Cadman, Member for Mitchell

The Hon Ross Cameron, Member for Parramatta

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mr Bob Charles, Member for La Trobe

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mr Steven Ciobo, Member for Moncrieff

The Hon Peter Costello, Member for Higgins

 The Hon Alexander Downer, Member for Mayo

• "The passengers [...] did not claim asylum in Australia"
• Australia's crimes against humanity

Mrs Trish Draper, Member for Makin

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mr Peter Dutton, Member for Dickson

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mrs Kay Elson, Member for Forde

 The Hon Warren Entsch, Member for Leichhardt

• Fear-mongering, voter seduction using the topic of 'illegal traffickers'

Mr Pat Farmer, Member for Macarthur

The Hon Christine Gallus, Member for Hindmarsh

• Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter
• refugee policy plays well in Hindmarsh, a "very pro-Howard" electorate

Ms Teresa Gambaro, Member for Petrie

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

Mrs Joanna Gash, Member for Gilmore

Mr Petro Georgiou, Member for Kooyong

• "TPV holders not sent back to war or persecution and given long-term Australian future"
• Liberal MP's urge refugee policy change
• Backbench upset over decision to deport Timorese

Mr Barry Haase, Member for Kalgoorlie

 The Hon Gary Hardgrave, Member for Moreton

• Not waiting for "the hundreds and thousands of unlawfuls"
• "The law requires detention of people who arrive without lawful authority"

Mr David Hawker, Member for Wannon

The Hon Joe Hockey, Member for North Sydney

 The Hon John Howard, Member for Bennelong

• Australia's crimes against humanity
• Another case of truth overboard?
• Howard's war to liberate a people he vilified
• Target Your Enemy
• SIEV X and the DFAT cable: The conspiracy of silence
• Reuniting families: Howard and Ruddock's hypocrisy
• A few weeks in Baxter might soften John Howard's heart

Mr Greg Hunt, Member for Flinders

Mr Michael Johnson, Member for Ryan

The Hon David Jull, Member for Fadden

The Hon Jackie Kelly, Member for Lindsay

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

The Hon Dr David Kemp, Member for Goldstein

Mr Peter King, Member for Wentworth (Malcolm Turnbull)

 Mrs Sussan Ley, Member for Farrer

• "It's part of the policies, it's the law of the land...."
• Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

 Mr Peter Lindsay, Member for Herbert

"...unauthorised arrivals, money-paying queue-jumpers, we take 33 'genuine' refugees per day..."

 Mr Jim Lloyd, Member for Robertson

• Local issues more important than the Iraq War, refugees or human rights issues
• [Current asylum policy] welcomes the most vulnerable from all over the world
• "protect our borders from those who try to come to this country illegally"

The Hon Ian Macfarlane, Member for Groom

Mrs Margaret May, Member for McPherson

Mr Stewart McArthur, Member for Corangamite

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

The Hon Judi Moylan, Member for Pearce

• "mystified why people are sent back to countries still ravaged by war, lawlessness, poverty"
• Returning refugees: if no compelling reasons, no benefits to the community"
• TAMPA: "I abstained from voting, I mean I declared myself absent from the vote..."

Mr Gary Nairn, Member for Eden-Monaro

The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson, Member for Bradfield

Ms Sophie Panopoulos, Member for Indi

Mr Chris Pearce, Member for Aston

The Hon Geoffrey Prosser, Member for Forrest

The Hon Christopher Pyne, Member for Sturt

Mr Don Randall, Member for Canning

Michelle Grattan (The Age): It's the Marginals that matter

 The Hon Philip Ruddock, Member for Berowra

• Who do you think you're kidding, Mr Ruddock?
• Reuniting families: Howard and Ruddock's hypocrisy
• Phil's sublime spin magicians
• Media silence abets Ruddock's atrocities

Mr Alby Schultz, Member for Hume

Mr Patrick Secker, Member for Barker

• Secker pleads refugee case in Murray Bridge
• Liberal MP's urge refugee policy change

The Hon Peter Slipper, Member for Fisher

Mr Tony Smith, Member for Casey

The Hon Alexander Somlyay, Member for Fairfax

Dr Andrew Southcott, Member for Boothby

The Hon Dr Sharman Stone, Member for Murray

"TPV holders not sent back to war or persecution and given long-term Australian future"

Mr Cameron Thompson, Member for Blair

Mr Ken Ticehurst, Member for Dobell

 The Hon Wilson Tuckey, Member for O'Connor

• 50% of Christmas Island residents oppose: "I'm not listening to this pile of horse shit..."
• Environmental lies and vandalism to get detention centre
• working to get all "illegal" arrivals on Christmas Island

The Hon Danna Vale, Member for Hughes

Mr Barry Wakelin, Member for Grey

Dr Mal Washer, Member for Moore

The Hon Daryl Williams, Member for Tangney

The Hon Trish Worth, Member for Adelaide

compassionate to 'the queue': not advocating policy change because of "genuine refugees"

Nationals

 The Hon John Anderson, Member for Gwydir

• "...illegal entrants seeking residence in Australia ... people who enter Australia illegally..."

 The Hon Larry Anthony, Member for Richmond

• "Labor has a secret plan to release refugees from detention centres."
• "They shouldn't be coming here and have children with Australian women..."
• "...illegal entrants seeking residence in Australia ... people who enter Australia illegally..."
• "...using border protection, 'boat people invasions' to pander to caravan park owners..."

The Hon Ian Causley, Member for Page

Mr John Cobb, Member for Parkes

Mr John Forrest, Member for Mallee

• "...a more compassionate approach to TPV-holders..."
• "These are the intelligentsia who those regimes [Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq] were after"
• "TPV holders not sent back to war or persecution and given long-term Australian future"

Mr Luke Hartsuyker, Member for Cowper

Mrs Kay Hull, Member for Riverina

• National MP calls for refugee amnesty
• "TPV holders not sent back to war or persecution and given long-term Australian future"

The Hon De-Anne Kelly, Member for Dawson

The Hon Peter McGauran, Member for Gippsland

Mr Paul Neville, Member for Hinkler

The Hon Bruce Scott, Member for Maranoa

The Hon Warren Truss, Member for Wide Bay

The Hon Mark Vaile, Member for Lyne