House debates

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Questions without Notice

Migration

2:56 pm

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

That is a killer blow, Mr Speaker. Not only did the member for McMahon preside over the worst period in immigration history in this country—where people drowned at sea and thousands of kids went into detention—let us go to what he did next: he also opposed our moves to tighten the visa character test, which we have now presided over and which saw people kicked out of this country. When he was the minister, he opposed moves by the Liberal Party. He opposed those moves. We sought to strengthen it. He opposed it. We have kicked out bikies. He supported bikies. We kicked out—

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