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

Wouldn't it be better to ask the government: how did you clean up Labor's mess? 'When we were in government, 50,000 people arrived on 800 boats,' he would say. 'How did you stop them? How did the Liberal government stop the boats?' How did we get kids out of detention? How did we close 17 detention centres that Labor opened? Why is it that I've not had a death at sea on my watch, and yet under Labor 1,200 people tragically drowned? Wouldn't these have been logical questions for the shadow minister for immigration to ask? You can only imagine what the first 750 days of a Labor government would bring. You can imagine what the first 750 hours would bring—boats, boats, boats.

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