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

I thank the member for Bean for his excellent question.

I have spoken in the House this week about the Nixon report and its findings about the serious and systemic failures in our migration system. To remind the House: Christine Nixon, a former police commissioner, reviewed our migration system and found that the system was being used to perpetrate some of the worst crimes there are—sexual exploitation and human trafficking—and that things were so bad that Australia had become a target for organised crime as a result. She found that the root causes of this problem were delay and a profound lack of enforcement overseen by the opposition leader who sits opposite me now.

What we know is that the opposition leader cannot claim not to have known about these problems while he was minister, because there was report after report—

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