Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that in her East Timor solution speech to the Lowy Institute before the last election, she praised the Australian Federal Police for working with our neighbours to prevent 'foreign nationals coming to our shores illegally'. Given that 35,000 foreign nationals have arrived illegally since that statement, why has her government reduced the presence of AFP officers in Indonesia by 40 per cent?

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. With the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the government is working on some new measures in this area and when we are in a position to announce their details we will.