Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) | Hansard source

The Leader of the Labor Party supported cuts to the AFP, to the Australian Crime Commission and to AUSTRAC. They cut 700 staff out of customs and border protection. He called the Pacific Solution 'indecent and inhumane'. On 1 July 2012 he called Nauru 'essentially a bus stop on the way to Australia'. Who would trust him with protecting our borders, together with the Greens? He went to the national conference of the Labor Party and said, 'If people were in a boat, including families and children, I myself couldn't turn them around.' That's what he said about turnbacks. On what he said about mandatory detention at the national conference of the Labor Party: he personally moved a motion in the Left caucus endorsing a policy that would abolish mandatory detention, abolish temporary protection visas and restore Christmas Island to Australia's migration zone. We know what the Leader of the Labor Party's form is when it comes to national security and protecting our borders, and there are four letters that—

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