Senator EGGLESTON (Western Australia) (14:40): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer to the government's announcement that it will seek to overcome the legislative flaws of the Malaysian solution. Given that Nauru has signed the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and that Malaysia has not, why is the government persisting with a policy which has been rejected by the High Court and many in the Labor Party, in particular the Left faction, and which is directly at variance with the Prime Minister's pre-election commitment not to send boat people to a country which has not signed the refugee convention?