Louise Markus (Greenway, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement by the Attorney-General that there are now 508 children being detained by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Given this is a near 25-fold increase on the 21 children who were being detained in November 2007 when he was elected, when will he admit that the government’s border protection policies are neither effective nor compassionate?

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