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

I thank the member for Brisbane, a great member for the electorate of Brisbane, representing the people of Brisbane incredibly well. I congratulate him on the great start he has had in this parliament.

We have seen on display today from the Leader of the Opposition exactly what has been on display during his whole working life. There has been one example of hypocrisy after another. We know that when Labor were in government they lost control of our borders—1,200 people drowned at sea and 50,000 people arrived on 800 boats—and this Leader of the Opposition sat around the cabinet table where he made incompetent decision after incompetent decision. But that was not the extent of his hypocrisy and incompetence as a minister in the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd glory years.

We have seen this Leader of the Opposition pretend to be the best friend that workers have ever had. What happened, as the Prime Minister pointed out, was that he was out bargaining on behalf of workers, so it seemed, and yet at the same time the companies with whom he was bargaining were paying secret payments to his union. He failed to disclose that to the workers, and the workers had a reduction in their conditions. He claimed to be the great protector of workers; it turned out that he was a complete hypocrite. It did not stop there—

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