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

The Nixon review found that, for all the bluff and bluster that went into being tough on borders, the Leader of the Opposition catastrophically failed to manage our migration system, leading to career criminals and people who were known human traffickers coming into the country under the Leader of the Opposition's watch and hurting Australian people. Where is the accountability for this? Then, of course, the Richardson review, as we know, demonstrates that, on the watch of the Leader of the Opposition, hundreds of millions of dollars was taken from the constituents of every single one of us in this chamber and given to companies that went on to commit horrible crimes. What we have before us is hundreds of pages that tell that us that all the Leader of the Opposition knows how to do is wreck, divide and destroy.

But, of course, it's not just his time in Home Affairs. It's not just my portfolio and the messes that I'm cleaning up. Remember that, when the Leader of the Opposition was health minister, he was voted by doctors as being the worst health minister in living memory. That was before he tried to cut $50 billion out of our hospital network. In Defence, for all the explosive rhetoric, what we saw was the Leader of the Opposition presiding over delayed defence projects to the tune of 97 years late.

What do we hear from the Leader of the Opposition in countering all of these very well-substantiated claims about him?

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