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

I thank the member for his question. I'm not going to take a morals lecture from the Greens when it comes to border protection policy. The government hasn't leaked information as claimed by the honourable member. Again, we can only look to his track record when he was in coalition with the Labor Party. The fact is, tragically, 1,200 people drowned at sea when Labor and the Greens unwound John Howard's policies. That was a tragedy. In the current debate going on within the civil war in the Labor Party, it seems that they want to return, tragically, to those days. There were 8,000 children put into detention, and we have got those children out of detention. Under the plan proposed by Labor and the Greens, there was no plan to take people off Manus—

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