Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

This government is seeking to reverse those failures of the previous government and we are making progress on reversing the chronic border failures of the previous government with a 75 per cent reduction in illegal arrivals by boat since the commencement of Operation Sovereign Borders. The Australian people who got rid of the previous government for those border failures, for the $11.6 billion of budget blow-outs because of those failures, expect us and can rely on us to have available and to implement all of the arsenal of measures that are needed to stop the boats. We will hold the line on this. We will stop the boats. We are stopping the boats. We were elected to do that and that is what we are doing.

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