Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, we inherited a broken migration system from those opposite, and the migration system that the Leader of the Opposition talks about is the system that he presided over. What we are doing is fixing the system. In the words of Dr Parkinson, who did the review:

This is a 10-year rebuild. This is not something that you can do quickly because it is so badly broken.

He said it was 'a deliberate decision to neglect the system'. We also had the report from Christine Nixon, who found that systemic failures in the visa system under the Leader of the Opposition's watch paved the way for foreign organised crime syndicates, including the Albanian mafia, to infiltrate the country and engage in illicit activities such as drug trafficking, money laundering, violence, modern slavery, sexual exploitation and corruption. The former deputy secretary of the immigration department, Abul Rizvi, indeed found:

In total there were between 100,000 and 120,000 asylum applications lodged'—

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