Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

That man is unknown to the Australian public, but he is actually the opposition immigration spokesperson. He is opposed to turnbacks, and he is in support of bringing back failed Labor policies which resulted in 52,000 people coming to our country on 800 boats. During that period of time, worse than that, 1,200 people drowned at sea. So do not lecture us when it comes to bipartisanship on important national security matters. We will not be lectured by the Labor Party because they presided over unprecedented disasters when it came to letting down national security and security of our borders.

The government have put, before this parliament, a number of measures over the last 18 months, and there will be more measures which are aimed fairly and squarely at keeping our borders safe and protecting the Australian public. We will not resile from this threat. For those opposite to try to lecture this government, when they have been completely out of touch in all of these issues for their whole working life, is a little bit rich. The government will do whatever they can to stare down the threat of terrorism, and it is a disgrace that this Leader of the Opposition is clearly not up to the task.

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