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

They turn up to convention centres, where the Labor Party is seeking to conduct a vote and they close the debate down.

What deal was done between this Leader of the Opposition and the CFMEU that they would move their block of considerable votes and stop this debate in relation to border protection? What back room deal was done by this union leader who now parades as a Leader of the Opposition? What dodgy deal was done that's not been disclosed to the Australian public? Well, we don't know, because it happened before the last election as well.

The reality is that we have stopped boats. It is 1,402 days today since we had a successful people-smuggling operation.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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