Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. With 55 boats, more than 2,400 unauthorised arrivals, a 42 per cent increase in onshore asylum applications since Labor came to government and the minister’s continued denials of special deals, is it not time that, as the Australian’s Paul Kelly advocated, the government stopped treating Australians like mugs? When will the minister start taking effective action?