Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Before the 2007 election, the then Labor leader promised that there would be no change to the approach to border protection in this country. But we now know that 50,000 people came on 800 boats, 1,200 people drowned at sea and 8,000 children, tragically, were put into detention. We have spent years cleaning this mess up. It has cost $16 billion.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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