Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. How much money do you currently have allocated for the purposes of boat buybacks in Indonesia?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I can assure the House that this side of the House has deployed and is deploying the full arsenal of measures that we have available to stop the boats. And we are funding those initiatives, as we set out in our policies before the election. And we are deploying those funds to achieve a very simple purpose—that is, to stop the boats. Since Operation Sovereign Borders commenced, the number of illegal boat arrivals to Australia has fallen by 75 per cent. I'll call that value for money.