House debates

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Questions without Notice

National Security

2:20 pm

Photo of Peter DuttonPeter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

over the last 12 months, under this government, we have seen one boat arrive. And yet in 2013, under Labor, there were 302 boats. At the same time, we have been able to put together a package of $630 million announced by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Justice and others, including my predecessor, who did a great job in this portfolio, that is part of this government's counter-terrorism response. It included $150 million for standing up 80 officer counter-terrorism units at airports across the country; $35 million for the outwards Advance Passenger Processing system; $50 million for outward departure gates; and $14 million to expand our global airline liaison officer network, and the work has—(Time expired)

Dr Chalmers interjecting

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