Andrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we've put in place four layers of protection. We've also set up the Community Protection Board to advise government on the appropriate measures to manage this cohort that we were required to release into the community. We've also done something that the former government did not do, and that is that we've made a real investment in immigration compliance—a quarter of billion dollars. This is in sharp contrast to decisions taken by the Leader of the Opposition, who halved the compliance function.

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