Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

In their day they opened detention centres. We have closed 19 and we have got all the children out of detention, and we've done it in a way that hasn't recommenced boats. We have done it in a way that hasn't seen children go back into detention.

Yet what we've seen in the last couple of weeks is Labor reverting back to the worst days of the Rudd and Gillard government. The Labor leader wants to tell the Australian public, as he did at the last election, that there would be no difference between our approach to border protection and that which he would provide if he's elected at the next election. But what the Australian public has seen over the last couple of weeks is a very important insight through the window into what a Labor government would look like. Labor, through the bill which is now known as Shorten's law, allows people to come from Manus and Nauru.

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