Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

If you spent far less time focusing on the Leader of the Opposition and more time on keeping the Australian community safe, we would not be in this unholy mess. Concentrate on doing your job. It's a really important job. It's your No. 1 priority. It's called 'keeping the Australian community safe' and you are failing at it.

I hate these examples, but I think we just have to keep reminding the government of them so they will focus on their job. The latest report, which has come in this afternoon, is that owing to ministerial direction 99, a man who viciously attacked his pregnant partner in an attempt to kill his unborn child is the latest noncitizen to be spared under ministerial direction 99. We know that the government have admitted, by stealth, that they got this wrong, because—

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