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

I thank most sincerely the member for O'Connor. He is a great hard worker in his electorate and he is very serious about the issue of border protection, as this government is. We inherited an incredible mess when we came to government. There were 52,000 people who had arrived on 821 boats under Labor. Tragically, 1,200 people had drowned at sea and there had been an $11 billion blow-out under Labor when it came to border protection.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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