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

This government understands that it is essential that governments maintain control over their migration programs to ensure that Australians have faith in those same programs. An inability to execute what is a very basic responsibility, quite frankly, demonstrates an inability—as those opposite demonstrated—to govern the country. When those opposite were in power they ceded control of Australia's border protection policies to the people smugglers and, in doing so, they inflicted immense damage on the reputation of Australia's migration policies. This is often an underreported fact of the chaos overseen by the former Labor government. As has been reported, Australia is actually the world's most generous nation for resettling refugees as a proportion of both our population and our national wealth. This is something that, as Australians, we should all be very proud of. (Time expired)