Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

The fundamental difference between this government's border protection policy and the failed policy of the former government is that, of the 13,750 visas that we have committed to, not one of those visas will go to someone who arrived in Australia illegally by boat. That is how you restore integrity and fairness back to your immigration system.

We will run an immigration program of which the Australian public can, yet again, be proud. We have said that a minimum of 11,000 of the 13,750 places in this government's humanitarian settlement program will go to those people desperately waiting for five, 10, 15 and 20 years in camps overseas—those people who were deliberately denied a place by the former government.