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

Here onshore we committed to reintroduce temporary protection visas and we did exactly that. No government that is serious about border protection honours the promises of people smugglers and hands out permanent residency in this country to people who came to Australia illegally by boat. This is what those opposite want to see happen now and that is why they combined together with the Greens the other night to try to keep open the visa shop which they ran for more than five years handing out permanent visas to people who had arrived illegally by boat. Those opposite combined with the Greens the other night to try to open that shop again. That shop is shut. This government has taken action to ensure that, despite the deplorable actions of the Greens and Labor acting in concert, the visa shop for those who have come to Australia illegally by boat is shut. The practice of the previous government was to keep that shop open. The key stewards of that shop sit on the benches opposite.

Mr Stephen Jones interjecting—

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