House debates Questions without Notice

Immigration Detention

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 House of Representatives

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

2:30 pm

Our government, when we came to government in 2013, ended the carnage of children dying at sea. We ended the carnage and we did it in three months—stopped that carnage from happening. We took 6,000 children out of detention because of our policies. We closed the detention centres that the Labor Party opened because of their inability to manage Australia's borders—as children lay face-down in the water—and at the urging of the policies of the Greens, whom they so happily went along with. So I'm not going to take lectures from the Greens movement, who are more responsible than any in this chamber, and their reckless attitude, as they seek to stand here and aggrandise themselves—

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