Senator RHIANNON (New South Wales) (14:21): I direct my question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr. Is the minister aware that, during the Howard government's Pacific solution, former Labor shadow minister for international development assistance Bob McMullan heavily criticised the then government for spending $27 million in aid money on detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island? Does the minister agree that spending aid money on offshore processing is inappropriate and distorts the aid budget away from the key objectives of poverty alleviation and achieving the Millennium Development Goals?