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

You said—through you, Madam Speaker—all of them said, that it could not be done! It could never be done! They came up with excuse after excuse after excuse for why it could not be done, and the boats just turned up, didn't they—day after day after day? The third ingredient was the result of a government which believed in policies that would work and wanted to address the problem.

So it has been the people, it has been the policies under this government and it has been the resolve of a government which believes in the policies we are implementing that mean we and can give those good people—whether they are in our Navy or our Customs and Border Protection—the support they need to get the job done. And 70 days, and counting, on, they are getting that job done.

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