House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Thursday, 10 February 2011 House of Representatives

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

2:19 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2010-2011, introduced this morning, which revealed a further $290 million budget blow-out in costs associated with managing asylum seekers due to the government’s failed border protection policies. How does the Prime Minister explain to Queenslanders why $155 million in flood mitigation works for the Bruce Highway has to be cut by the government, yet it can find over $290 million more for blow-outs in the immigration department?

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