Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer her to a press release which she issued on 23 April 2003, when she was shadow immigration spokesman, and I quote her:

Another boat on the way. Another policy failure.

Given 41 boats carrying nearly 2,000 people have arrived in Australian waters since the Rudd government announced its changes to our border protection policies, will the Acting Prime Minister confirm that, by her own criteria, the government’s changes to immigration law represent a massive policy failure?

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