Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

And the reality is that the ignorance demonstrated through that recent contribution by the member for Blair, I think, should say to all Australians that Labor still have no capacity to deal with the very serious consequences of bad decisions in this portfolio. The member makes reference to people who are on Nauru and, indeed for that matter, on Manus. These arrangements were set up by Prime Ministers Rudd and Gillard, it needs to be pointed out. Why do we need these arrangements? Because Labor undid the arrangements when they came into government in 2007. There were four people in detention, including no children, when John Howard left office in 2007 and then there were 50,000 who arrived on 800 boats. It is unbelievable.

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