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Speeches and transcripts – 2012
This section offers speeches and transcripts published by the minister in 2012.
Note: Speeches and transcripts are ordered by date, not by topic.
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May
- 02 May – India and Australia: A relationship of mutual benefit (Speech to the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi.)
- 02 May – Minister's visit to Sri Lanka, asylum seekers, people smuggling, refugee resettlement (Interview with Richard Lindell, ABC 24.)
April
- 14 April – Boat located in Indonesia, boat arrivals, mandatory detention, offshore processing, Malaysia Arragenment, Coalition intransigence, Bob Brown and the Greens (Interview with Chris Kenny, Sky News Saturday Agenda.)
- 11 April – Chinese asylum seekers, Indonesia, Coalition opportunism (Interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC News 24.)
- 11 April – Chinese asylum seekers, boat arrivals, Malaysia Arrangement (Interview with David Speers, Sky News PM Agenda.)
- 03 April – Arthur Calwell Memorial Lecture (Speech Delivered in Melbourne.)
- 02 April – Skilled American workers to fill labour shortages; poll; boat arrival (Joint Press Conference with Senator Chris Evans on US work visa arrangement.)
March
- 30 March – Joint Select Committee Report on Australia's Immigration Detention Network, community detention, bridging visas (Interview with Emma Alberici, ABC Lateline.)
- 15 March – Coalition's policy to 'turn back the boats', Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, Malaysia Arrangement (Interview with Ashleigh Gillon, Sky News PM Agenda.)
- 14 March – Migration from China, international students, skilled migration, asylum seekers, Malaysia arrangement, people smuggling, Serco training manual (Interview with Jim Middleton -NEWSLINE, Australia Network.)
- 11 March – Malaysia Arrangement, Indonesia, turning back the boats, Australian Labor Party, Budget, Defence reviews (Interview with Paul Bongiorno, Stefanie Balogh and Mark Kenny, Meet The Press, Channel Ten)
- 09 March – 2012 CPD Immigration Law Conference - Immigration Lawyers Association of Australasia (Keynote address to the CPD Immigration Law Conference, Sydney.)
February
- 27 February – Mark Arbib, Australian Labor Party (Interview with David Speers, Sky News PM Agenda.)
- 26 February – Australian Labor Party, Malaysia Arrangement (Interview with Peter Van Onselen, Paul Kelly and Dennis Shanahan, Sky News Australian Agenda.)
- 23 February – Australian Labor Party (Interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC News 24.)
- 17 February – Community detention, resettlement, offshore processing, asylum claims, Individual Allowance Points, government measures to ease cost of living pressures, set top boxes (Interview with Leon Byner, 5AA.)
- 17 February – Community detention, asylum seekers, offshore processing (Interview with David Oldfield, 2UE.)
- 17 February – Community detention, offshore processing, boat arrivals (Interview with Marius Benson, ABC NewsRadio.)
- 16 February – Pontville Immigration Detention Centre (Interview with Leon Compton, ABC Hobart Mornings.)
- 09 February – Detention contracts, Opposition's refusal to negotiate on offshore processing, asylum seekers' documentation (Interview with Adam Spencer, ABC Sydney Breakfast.)
- 03 February – The Refugee Convention and Beyond (Keynote address to the Australasian Chapter Regional Conference, Melbourne.)
January
- 26 January – Australia Day, citizenship, Anthony Albanese speech, offshore processing (Doorstop interview, Sydney.)
- 25 January – Immigration Department advice on Nauru, costings, no Coalition plan to fund Nauru, Temporary Protection Visas, ALP policy (Interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC News Breakfast.)
- 24 January – Correspondence with the Opposition, offshore processing, Malaysia arrangement, Opposition's policies of Nauru, Temporary Protection Visas and turning back boats (Doorstop interview, Sydney.)
- 24 January – Discussions with the Opposition, offshore processing (Interview with Marius Benson, ABC NewsRadio.)
- 23 January – Opposition's turning back boats policy, boat arrivals, poker machine reform (Interview with Steve Price, MTR Breakfast.)
- 21 January – Opposition's turning back boats policy, Temporary Protection Visas, Malaysia arrangement, Nauru, negotiating with the Opposition (Interview with Sabra Lane, 2UE Breakfast.)
