Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

So what did she do? She had an inquiry, presumably a political inquiry, when the number of children in detention was 200 and declining all the time. I am delighted to have questions on this subject from the Leader of the Opposition. I invite the Leader of the Opposition to continue asking questions on this subject because every question that he asks gives me the chance to declare that members opposite were total failures when it comes to border protection. Thanks to consistent failure, thanks to a weakness of will, thanks to a lack of ability to govern on the part of members opposite—

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

some 50,000—

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