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

I thank the honourable member for his question. I give great credit and pay tribute to the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance today for getting through a massive win for families. But this government is not only about helping families in a financial way, making sure that they've got more of their own money in their own pocket; we're also about making sure that we can keep families safe.

The government has been unapologetic about making sure that we can secure our borders, because if we secure our borders we can have a safe society. But we haven't stopped there. We've cancelled the visas of criminals—non-citizens who were here in our country, committing offences against women, against children and against Australian citizens otherwise. We've cancelled more visas of criminals in the last 12 months than Labor cancelled in six years. We've cancelled a record number of visas—over 250—of people who have committed sexual offences against children.

Importantly, we have cancelled the visas of 184 outlaw motorcycle gang members. The reason is that the outlaw motorcycle gang members are the biggest importers and distributors of ice and amphetamine in our country. In country towns, in rural communities and in our capital cities ice is a scourge. We are doing our very best to make sure that those families can grow up intact and that their children aren't lost to the perils of drug use. We are stamping out outlaw motorcycle gang members. Unfortunately, we do know that outlaw motorcycle gang members have very clear links to other media—other Mafia-type organisations; I'm sorry—

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