Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

in the end, the opposition are about rank opportunism. They are about political expediency. They are about putting politics before policy. They are about demonising people who are desperate and seeking asylum from persecution. Quite happily they will demonise those people. Quite happily they will blur the lines between people smugglers and those people who seek asylum.

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