Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am not going to accept the Leader of the Opposition's characterisation of remarks made by the minister for immigration. The fact of the matter is that the greatest mistake made in immigration, the greatest failure—which we do not need to be a historian to recall and which we do not need to go back to the 1970s to reflect upon—was by those opposite when they abandoned the integrity of our borders, when they threw away Australia's sovereignty and they allowed 50,000 unauthorised arrivals and over 1,200 deaths at sea.

Ms Catherine King interjecting—

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