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

I thank the member for Robertson for her question. I know her constituents in Robertson have always had a keen interest in this topic. Last time I was there they were looking forward to ensuring that the measures that they had voted for would be implemented by this government, and that is what they have seen from this government—resolutely each day going about the job of doing what we said we would do, in the way we said we would do it and getting the results we said we would get.

It has been 65 days since the last venture came to Australia successfully—all 157 of those all went to Nauru. There has only been one venture this year, as those opposite will know. Operation Sovereign Borders has now been going for over a year, and in that time there has just been 23 ventures and 1,265 people. But 22 of those ventures—Have you have a question from me today? Have you?

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