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

and our Border Protection services. This government has restored that funding. We have put significant amounts of funding back into the Australian Customs Service, back into Border Force, and we will keep our borders strong. This is for a couple of reasons—not just because we want to stop the boats, not just because we want to stop people drowning at sea and not just because we do not want our detention centres filled with children, as they were under Labor, but also because we want to stare down the scourge of terrorism and we want to stare down—

Mr Giles interjecting—

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