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

Just by way of statistics I can do that. Under the former Rudd-Gillard-Rudd governments, 50,000 people arrived here illegally by boat. Under the coalition government, one vessel has successfully arrived. Under Labor, in excess of 1,200 people tragically died at sea. Under the coalition, Operation Sovereign Borders has seen deaths at sea stopped. Under Labor, children in detention peaked at 1,992 children in one month alone, July 2013. Under the coalition, as of last Friday, I am advised that there were 120 children in detention on the mainland.

Of course we yet again go to the budget blow-outs. Under those opposite in just 5½ years there was $11 billion in budget blow-outs—versus us with responsible government on this side; we saved the Australian taxpayer $2.5 billion last year and we will save the Australian taxpayer an additional half a billion dollars this year. (Time expired)