Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator McKim for the question, because, Senator McKim, what it again shows the people of Australia is that, under the Greens, you will continue to allow people smugglers to exploit people by putting them on boats and drowning—around 1,200 drowned—and taking that perilous journey to Australia. Senator McKim, the question that you have put to me is a very real reminder for everybody in this chamber that, as a country, as a government, we are still today, in 2021, dealing with the legacy of border protection failure when both yourself and Labor were last in government. The Morrison government has made it very, very clear that only misery, human misery, can result from allowing people smugglers to conduct their ugly trade. Twelve hundred people—