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

That is what it means for parents who are worried about their kids going out on a Friday night or going out on the weekend and being faced with people peddling drugs. We are doing everything we can as a government to restore integrity to our borders; and the Labor Party, if they were re-elected at the next election, would seek again to rip money out of our Border Protection forces.

I spoke about the counter-terrorism units the day before yesterday. The Prime Minister made reference to them in his answer today, as did the foreign affairs minister. With $50 million of funding from this government, we have been able to set up counter-terrorism unit forces within Border Protection at the eight international airports. That is the reason we have been able to identify these young people who would seek to go to the Middle East and who would seek to fight in those conflicts in Syria and Iraq. We are stopping those kids because we have restored the funding. Labor would rip the funding out.

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