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

I am not surprised the Manager of Opposition Business would be sensitively coming to the despatch box. I remind the House that last July, when he was minister, 4,338 people turned up on 48 illegal boats on his watch. It was the worst record of any immigration minister on our borders in our history. That is your record. The record of the member for McMahon, who sits opposite, is almost 25,000 arrivals on his watch. What a failure! What a hopeless failure! Here he comes again, last year's failure.

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