Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

Listening to this debate and the histrionics and the nature of it reminds me of an adage that if you act in haste you repent at leisure. If you listen to those opposite, you'd think that they've done nothing wrong. Well, on the very last day of the sittings of last year, they were prepared to dismantle perhaps the most successful policy—some would say the only successful policy—which the coalition has carried through successive governments, and that is protecting our borders, stopping this insidious people smuggler trade and stopping people from gaming the system in trying to come to Australia.