Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) | Hansard source

This is a report that shows us that the Leader of the Opposition oversaw hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars being funnelled into companies which were involved in drug smuggling, arms trafficking, money laundering and human trafficking. To have so fundamentally failed in your duty to the Australian people! How do you come back from that?

But, of course, for the Leader of the Opposition it's not just the Richardson review. Three reports from three eminent Australians—Martin Parkinson, Christine Nixon and Dennis Richardson—have now found that the Leader of the Opposition's public record is littered with systems that he has wrecked and destroyed. Martin Parkinson's review, which I have here, describes the migration system as being fundamentally broken, and he has said that this occurred because of a decade of deliberate neglect by those opposite. The Nixon review found that, for all the bluff and bluster—

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