Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) | Hansard source

So you go through all three examples they gave. One was drug interception—successful; good. Second was Border Force intercepting and following on, even in the face of gunfire. Instead of standing with those Australian officials, you want to mock them. And, thirdly, 'What happened in Weipa?' That is clearly a question they wrote before they realised that every one of those individuals had been removed from Australia.

If you want to show that you care about the borders, stop providing information for people smugglers. Here is a hint on border protection: if the key question for the Leader of the Opposition is, 'Do you get your senators to vote with the Greens?' warning! That is a warning, in terms of where that leads. I understand the stance on border protection from those opposite. I will never understand, though, wanting people smugglers to have access to surveillance information.

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