Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

I refer the minister to the statement by the former Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, on 23 November 2007, when he said:

Labor would take asylum-seekers who had been rescued from leaky boats to Christmas Island, would turn back seaworthy vessels containing such people on the high seas …

"You'd turn them back," he said of boats approaching Australia, emphasising that Labor believed in an "orderly immigration system" …

Again I ask the minister: are you a hypocrite or are you not, by your answer both yesterday—