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

The Labor Party may not want to hear this, but the Australian public already knows it. Whether we're talking about border management, whether we're talking about visas, whether we're talking about Australian jobs, this Leader of the Opposition has a track record for a lack of integrity.

Opposition members interjecting—

They can scream and yell as much as they want, but they know—as the member for Grayndler knows—that this Leader of the Opposition has big question marks over his character.

The fact is that this government, when we were elected, was elected to clean up a mess, and clean it up we have. We've stopped deaths at sea. We've stopped children arriving into detention. And, at the same time, in a compassionate way, we have been able to increase the number of refugees coming into this country. The Labor Party, in contrast—including this Leader of the Opposition, who was a minister in the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years—presided over 1,200 people drowning at sea, including men, women and children. At the same time, he's been out there saying to the Australian public that he wouldn't tolerate that again, that he would adopt the policies of this government. But the fact is that he won't, because you cannot trust this Leader of the Opposition. You cannot trust this man. The Australian public gets it, and the member for Grayndler is going to act on it soon enough.

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