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

Is it my lucky day? Is it? Is it? Any day they seek to ask a question in this place there will be the opportunity to remind those opposite of their hopeless failure while they were in government.

On this issue, it is true that Labor left behind a mess on our borders, but they also left behind more than 30,000 people, more than half of those who arrived on their watch, without processing them. Twenty three thousand of them they did not even commence processing. So I found it strange on the weekend that the member for Corio said that we needed to start processing people. Where was he from August 2012 to the election in September 2013? Completely absent, I am sure.

But we are getting on with the job, and the way we are getting on with the job is that, first of all, you do not add to the problem. What you do is you do not add to the problem, and we have not had a successful venture for people smugglers in over six months. But the next thing you do is you start to process them. We put in place temporary protection visas, which were disallowed by Labor and the—is this is a question? Is it? Is there a chance?

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