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

of the level of aggression from those who want to harm our borders and those who want to harm our country. I am proud of Australian Border Force and Operation Sovereign Borders—that, even when people come with those sorts of weapons, we make sure that their operations are not successful.

There is something that I will pay credit to the previous government for, because it's something that has continued. It has been more than a decade since there has been a successful people smuggling operation, and we give that message because it's true. That's the message that people smugglers don't want to hear. But this character, this leader of the opposition, the guy who wants to bring all three right-wing parties together—

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