House debates Matters of Public Importance

Border Protection

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 House of Representatives

Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs

4:30 pm

in the end, the opposition are about rank opportunism. They are about political expediency. They are about putting politics before policy. They are about demonising people who are desperate and seeking asylum from persecution. Quite happily they will demonise those people. Quite happily they will blur the lines between people smugglers and those people who seek asylum.

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