The government has only recently renewed an expired instrument in the Migration Act which has meant for months Nauru was not a destination in which “illegal arrivals could legally be sent”, says Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“An instrument in the Migration Act designating Nauru as a ‘regional processing country’ expired in October last year and has now just been reviewed by a very panicked government playing catch-up,” Ms Credlin said.
“Some today say it was the public servants who are to blame here, with the bureaucrats reportedly only advising the government a few months into their term in office after the designation had expired. “But is that really what happened, given every minister – every minister and the Prime Minster, gets an incoming government brief, this sort of sunset provision looming is up in lights at the top of the front page of these … incoming briefs.
“I’m not so ready to blame the public servants here, especially given the fact that so many inside Labor would love to junk the former Coalition’s policy – but there’s a few sensible ones left that know if they do, the boats will start up again.”
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