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

While the former government had a process of opening detention centre after detention centre after detention centre—in fact, they opened 17—this government is taking the steps to now close detention centres. On Friday, Minister Morrison announced that we will now be closing a further six detention centres opened by the Labor government, and this is in addition to those closures which we announced in January this year.

Because of this government's responsible border protection policies, we have been able to announce the establishment of the Australian Border Force as of 1 July 2015. Savings realised because of this government's border protection policies will not be frittered away like the former government did but instead will be responsibly reinvested back into this portfolio to continue to secure Australia's borders.