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

Yes, unfortunately, I can. It would appear that the left-wing tail continues to wag the Labor dog. Proof of that is that the Left continue to be in charge of Labor's border protection policies. Most recently we have seen Melissa Parke, the member for Fremantle, warning the current opposition leader, Bill Shorten, not to embrace the coalition's successful turn-back policy on asylum seekers, saying there would be enormous ramifications if the Labor Party reversed its opposition to turn-backs at the ALP's national conference in July.

We know that in relation to temporary protection visas the shadow minister has revealed that he wants to rubber-stamp Labor's plans to abolish temporary protection visas. Those on the other side fail to learn from their mistakes. If you do not embrace turn-backs, if you abolish temporary protection visas, as your stated policies do, we return to the chaos— (Time expired)