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

The advice that I have received in relation to these two particular individuals is that one arrived in Australia in 2009 and one arrived in Australia in 2012. On the advice provided to me, one of those arrived on improperly documented air travel, on fraudulent documents, and that matter is being investigated as a matter of urgency. But it is important for all of us to understand the pressure that our security agencies were under at the time.

The fact is that, when John Howard left government in 2007, there were four people in detention, including no children. That is a very important fact for the Australian public to remember, and yet, over the course of the next seven years—

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