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Birmingham explains Dutton's remarks

The Coalition's Simon Birmingham is speaking to ABC radio RN Breakfast right now and he is asked about the prime minister's comments about no one coming to Australia from Gaza at the moment.

Because he answered a question from a fellow journalist, so this wasn't brought up by Peter Dutton, as is being put.

Yes, the borders in Gaza are closed at present.

Just while I've got you, Pete, before you go, and while it's quiet, I do want to ask you about the security checks on Palestinians coming in from Gaza. Your thoughts on that this morning?

No one is coming out of Gaza, because in order to leave Gaza, of course, Israel, due to the nature of the situation there, was having to approve people going through the Rafah crossing in order to depart earlier on.

So they know that that's the situation, and that's the context of Peter Dutton then saying he wants just to pause for the moment. He wants to stop people coming in when he knows that no one is leaving Gaza, at the moment.