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

I thank the member for Ryan for her question. She will be pleased to know, as will her constituents, that in dealing with this current threat, this elevated level of threat of counter-terrorism, we as a government are dealing with from a greater position of strength than we certainly inherited. When we are dealing with this issue, we are dealing with an environment where our border agencies have had $700 million of cuts reversed by this government to put greater support and resources on our borders to ensure that we act from a position of strength. We are also integrating our border agencies with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to ensure that we act from a position of strength. This government is also not acting from a position of weakness, where our borders were surrendered, where crisis and chaos rained down on the previous government, completely overwhelming their border agencies because of the border chaos. It has been 85 days since the last solitary people-smuggling venture to this country. We are coming from a position of strength—

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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