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

We have also introduced into the parliament the Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation Legislation Amendment Bill 2019, which goes to providing more strength and support to policing agencies to make sure that we can keep Australian children safe. We want to invest more into this area and we are putting more money into the Australian Federal Police and other agencies, but we can do that only if we manage the economy well—if we manage the budget well; if we make sure that we can put this investment into areas of priority for the Australian public. The fact is that when Labor lost control of their budget they lost control of their ability to invest in important areas.

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