Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

and that is why they could never implement it properly. They could never implement it properly, because they did not believe in it. So since the government were elected we have had to go about the process of putting it back in place in the way it was designed.

Under the previous government, when they were dragged kicking and screaming to reintroduce offshore processing, one in 20 people who arrived illegally by boat were sent to Nauru and Manus Island. At the eleventh hour, when they confected a press conference—it was not implementation of a policy; it was just a press conference—we inherited a policy that was unfunded, was under capacity and had been constantly undermined by the previous government in its implementation. That is why the Australian people threw them out—because they did not trust them to run offshore processing.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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