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

I'm sorry. But I can say that we're working closely with our law enforcement agencies. We want to fund them properly, because we want them to be working on jobs that will keep Australians safe. We want to make sure that the investment into our law enforcement agencies allows the police to disrupt these criminal networks so that these drugs don't go into the hands of young Australians to destroy those lives.

What we've seen in the last 24 hours or so from those opposite is the complete contrast to that position of the government. The shadow Attorney-General has now referred people to the police on nine occasions, but do you know what his score is, Mr Speaker? It's nought from nine—nought from nine! He's a serial offender. He sits there in his pompous way, looking across—as he does now—believing somehow that he has a superior view. He does this to try to assassinate the character of people in this place. He fails dismally and he should stop tying up police resources and make sure he gets out of the way— (Time expired)

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