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

My apology. The Leader of the Opposition went to the last election trying to trick the Australian people into believing they had a united position. Of course, they do not. There are many Labor members—and we are going to go into some detail about their comments over coming parliamentary days—who are still advocating for the Albanese cause within the Labor party, and we know the member for Grayndler has a very different position to the Leader of the Opposition when it comes to policy in this area.

It is absolutely essential that the government continues the work that we have presided over, over the course of the last couple of years. Not only have we been able to stop boats, but we have also been able to get children out of detention. It is one of the crowning achievements of the last 12 months of this government, but it did not come easily. We stared down all of the nay-sayers within the Labor Party. The Leader of the Opposition has no such leadership ability.

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