Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Eggleston for his supplementary question. The effect of the policies that this government has introduced has been to do exactly what we said we would do at the federal election in 2013, and that was to do what three previous Labor governments had failed to do: stop the boats. In January of this year alone, there have been no boat arrivals in Australia. Compare that to January 2013: 14 boats, 798 people; 2012: five boats, 301 people; January 2011: three boats, 218 people; January 2010: 11 boats, 615 people. The subsequent effect of our policies is that they are working. (Time expired)