House debates Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

Monday, 15 June 2015 House of Representatives

Ms Julie Bishop

Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs

2:14 pm

I thank the shadow minister for her question for we know that this question is motivated by a desire to discredit Operation Sovereign Borders. This is all about preparing the ground for Labor's policy on asylum seekers, which will be to dismantle Operation Sovereign Borders. And we know what is going to happen because we have seen it before—50,000 people arrived by boat, $11 billion in cost blow-outs, 1,200 people that we know of died at sea under their watch.

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