Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

I do seek to suspend standing orders because, again, this government has refused to answer simple questions. On the children that are over the age of 14 that should be subjected to temporary exclusion orders, the foreign minister refused to answer the question. How many passports have been issued to this cohort? Australians are concerned. Australians are compassionate people, but a government's responsibility is not to wait to be told what to do in a crisis by officials; it is to lead and act and to use their constitutional powers and responsibilities to always act in the national interests. That's what the opposition has sought to do, and that's what we'll continue to do.