House debates Questions without Notice

Australian Human Rights Commission

Thursday, 26 February 2015 House of Representatives

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

2:08 pm

So what did she do? She had an inquiry, presumably a political inquiry, when the number of children in detention was 200 and declining all the time. I am delighted to have questions on this subject from the Leader of the Opposition. I invite the Leader of the Opposition to continue asking questions on this subject because every question that he asks gives me the chance to declare that members opposite were total failures when it comes to border protection. Thanks to consistent failure, thanks to a weakness of will, thanks to a lack of ability to govern on the part of members opposite—

Dr Chalmers interjecting

some 50,000—

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