Malaysia transfer arrangement, Nauru Peter Van Onselen: We're joined now by the Immigration Minister Scott Bowen. I'm emulating bringing you both together. No, Chris Bowen, thanks very much for your company. Bowen: Thanks, Peter. Good morning. Van Onselen: There's breaking news today: a boat has been intercepted north-west of Scott Reef; 54 asylum seekers on it, two crew. What is going to happen to that boat? Bowen: Well, what happens now is the new arrangements are in place which means the boat obviously gets taken to Christmas Island. That can take some days for that to happen. Then we begin our pre-transfer arrangements, which is assessing the vulnerability of people and assessing fitness to fly, and we begin the process of transferring people to Malaysia. Now, what the arrangement makes clear is that that turnaround time will eventually be three days from arrival at Christmas Island to Malaysia. As I said earlier in the week, you can expect that to ramp up over coming weeks. It will take some time for that to be fully operational, for that three days to be operational. But nevertheless, this is an important signal to send to people, as Paul correctly said in his introduction. Australia is more than happy to take refugees. I'm more than happy to take more refugees, as Immigration Minister. I think we can and should. But there needs to be an orderly process. And what we want to do is stop people making the very risky journey to get