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

There are many other examples that we could use here, but the point is that people smugglers can smell a weak Labor leader miles away. They picked it in Kevin Rudd, they picked it in Julia Gillard and they see it every day in this bloke. If you cannot secure our borders, you cannot look the Australian people in the eye and say that you can provide security in this country. The problem at the last election was that Labor could not get their act together. They have not changed their ways since the Rudd and Gillard years—

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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