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

When, upon coming into government, we announced that we were restoring temporary protection visas, 181 people out of that 33,000 decided to go home—because they were not going to hang around just to get a temporary protection visa. They had been hanging around hoping to get a permanent visa. But Labor and the Greens combined to vote against what the Australian people voted for. They voted to honour the promises of the people smugglers, a promise made on their watch to the people who came here on their watch. Labor and the Greens wanted to close the deal and keep the visa shop open for those the previous government, through their own border failures, had invited into this place.

But there are many other measures that we are introducing. We are withdrawing taxpayer funded assistance for migration and legal advice on their claims.

Mr Stephen Jones interjecting—

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