Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very happy to run through the record and compare and contrast our record in government with your record when you were in government for six years, which saw our law enforcement not given the support and the resources that, quite frankly, they deserve. We have invested, since 2013, $1½ billion in our national security and counterterrorism operations; $128 million to fund the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce, which are very difficult crimes to investigate, and we've got specialist capability in there with this investment to do it; $116 million in the National Anti-Gangs Squad; $25 million to expand the AFP's National Forensic Rapid Lab capability; $21 million to extend the trade union royal commission task force—something, of course, that we know that those opposite don't support; and $15 million for the Fraud and Anti-Corruption Centre. On top of these resources that we've given to our agencies, what is also very important is that we've given them the powers to do their job.

If the Australian Labor Party are so worried about fighting crime, why don't they join us in helping to lock up paedophiles? Why don't they support what we want to do to lock up paedophiles?

Honourable members interjecting—

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