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

I want to address some of the remarks made by the honourable member opposite and then address the remarks of my learned colleague from Cowan because I think the two issues obviously dovetail together.

To go to Mr Marles's question first: I think, frankly, what you have seen tonight can only be described as an embarrassing performance. We had question time today, where not one question was asked by Mr Marles in question time—not one. There was not one question in relation to this issue. Yesterday, this was the biggest issue that the Labor Party had, and today there was not one question. We come to this place to talk about the budget, to talk about the money that we are putting into this particular program—

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