Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It's not a history I'd be proud of, either. This has included creating an incident response function which did not exist before we came to office. It has involved fixing privacy laws and the rollout of a new model of policing which will see the Australian government hack the hackers. There is a lot more work to be done and there will be more cyberattacks, but we are punching back for the first time in this critical area of policy.

On immigration, when we arrived in office there were one million unprocessed visas sitting in the system with no plan to process them in the middle of the biggest labour shortage we have had in 70 years. I pay credit to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs for the work he has done. I could go on: failed citizenship laws that left a legal and constitutional mess, an immigration policy framework totally failing to meet the nation's needs, an immigration system being exploited by criminals. For every rock I look under there is a legal and policy mess created by the former government, and we are cleaning it up.

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