Ms GILLARD (2:57 PM) —My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Can the minister confirm that he has secretly agreed to new payments of $1,000 per person to asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru who have not accepted the offered reintegration package but who request the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration to return. Doesn't this leaked DIMIA document prove you were trying to cover this arrangement up, given it specifically states:

Minister, what else are you hiding from the Australian people?

Mr RUDDOCK (Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation) —I have not seen the document that the honourable member is referring to, but let me just say that I certainly have the view that if I can put in place, through the International Organisation for Migration, arrangements which do not involve the implementation of the package that was declined by those who were offered it but which will facilitate the return of people who remain in offshore processing, it would be an appropriate direction in which to proceed.

Ms Gillard —I seek leave to table the DIMIA minute, including the statement that this arrangement not be publicised and conducted at arm's length from government.

Leave granted.