Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Sydney for her question. The Australian government is concerned about the people-smuggling trade. That is precisely why we have acted to close it down. The people-smuggling trade are criminal syndicates, and we have worked constructively with the Indonesian government and Indonesian authorities since we came into government to ensure that we can disrupt the people-smuggling trade, because this trade leads to deaths at sea. Twelve hundred people are known to have died at sea under Labor's policies. Eleven billion dollars in cost blow-outs occurred—

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