Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The final point I would make is that, when Labor and the Greens last changed our border protection policies, do you know what happened? We had illegal boat arrivals as far south as Geraldton in Western Australia. The people who were sitting in the Dome Cafe in Geraldton could have been knocked over with a feather too. There was a boat coming over the horizon with illegal boat arrivals. That was the outcome of the last time Labor joined with the Greens to fiddle with our border protection policy framework. Don't do it. Our message to the Labor Party is: 'Don't do it. You don't know how to protect our country. Let us do it. Just accept that our policy framework works'—