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

Yes, I can. Just yesterday we witnessed an extraordinary outburst from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Ms Plibersek, in which she demonstrated that the Labor Party still just do not understand why it is important for the government of the day to have control over its border policies. She was on Sky News with David Speers. Speersy said on Syria that the government has announced some 4,000 positions for refugees from Syria and Iraq that arguably would not have existed under Labor's policy, when all of those places went to those who came by boat. Ms Plibersek responded:

This is pretty close to the numbers that were coming from these countries in any case.

What Ms Plibersek clearly failed to understand is that those people were coming illegally by boat and they were not coming from source countries. This again shows that those opposite believe that any arrival in Australia is a good arrival and is acceptable. (Time expired)