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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Defence Materiel, Senator Ludwig. I refer the minister to the statement of the now foreign minister when, as New South Wales Premier, he said:

… all of these guns, the guns on our streets, the guns being traded, the guns that form this black market have got into Australia through pretty porous borders…

Does the minister believe that 'porous borders', as put by Minister Bob Carr, are allowing illegal weapons to be smuggled into Australia from overseas and, in particular, into Western Sydney as a result of Labor slashing Customs inspections by more than sixfold?