Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

I thought I dealt with the untruths that have been peddled in this matter last week when I was asked a very similar question by the shadow minister for justice. I am very happy any day of the week to compare our record with the record of the opposition when they were in government. We have invested in an unprecedented way in our law enforcement and security agencies, including $1½ billion for the counterterrorism response alone. As I said last week, when I became minister I inherited the wreckage of what had happened under the Labor Party for six years, not just in the law enforcement relationship but across every national security aspect of the Commonwealth: the lowest defence spending since 1938 and cuts to customs at $¾ billion, which meant that we were not screening cargo when it came over our threshold, which resulted in imports of guns and drugs—

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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