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

Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer the Prime Minister to this table, which graphically illustrates the incredible surge in people-smuggling activity from August 2008, when this government began dismantling the strong border protection policies of the Howard coalition. Mr Speaker, how can the Prime Minister continue to maintain that his government’s policies have had no impact whatsoever in the incredible luring to the new market of people smuggling coming into Australia? Australia is the new destination.

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