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

You voted for him! He was your leader. You were climbing the ladder with him. You went walking in his footsteps. What does he say? I quote Mark Latham. He says:

Media reporting that "Labor is divided on boat arrivals".

In fact, they are remarkably united: 90% of the Caucus believes in ending offshore processing.

Bill Shorten believes in open borders ("humane treatment of refugees") but is only saying otherwise for electoral reasons.

If ever you needed evidence of a torn Labor Party, you could point to many of them—the comments that they've made.

But the most remarkable comment I've ever seen comes from the Labor Party in relation to this particular matter. Where is it? Someone's smiling down on the corner here, because there was a transcript issued. And the transcript, issued by the Hon. Linda Burney, shadow minister for human services, member for Barton, was nothing like the actual interview. It was so bad—I've highlighted the parts where they fabricated the transcript. The highlighted bits are added in. They couldn't even doctor it to the point that they represented what David Speers had to say as being accurate. They doctored Speersy, and in this transcript it shows that it was the most duplicitous act. It was cleared by the Leader of the Opposition's office. It was conveyed to the press gallery by the Leader of the Opposition's office. Nobody would be surprised that this Leader of the Opposition would be part of a dodgy deal trying to cover up some sort of dodgy circumstance. The Labor Party is hopeless when it comes to stopping the boats.

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