Sally Sitou (Reid, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has been in this place for more than two decades. He has had a variety of roles, and in those roles he has been a complete and utter failure. This is not my assessment; this is the assessment of experts.

When he was health minister, he cut $50 billion from hospitals and tried to introduce a $7 GP tax. Australian doctors voted him the worst health minister in living memory.

As home affairs minister, three independent reviews found that the Leader of the Opposition oversaw a migration system that was failing. His migration system was so riddled with holes that known criminals were allowed in, including Binjun Xie, who lived in my electorate. He ran a sex-trafficking ring, exploiting vulnerable women, for years. And what is extraordinary is that Binjun Xie was jailed in the UK for committing the same crimes. The UK authorities were stunned that the Liberals let him into the country. And it took a Labor government to kick him out.

The Leader of the Opposition was the worst health minister, the worst home affairs minister and the worst Liberal leader. His own party room rejected him as leader, twice. He is divisive and extreme and we cannot let him run this country.

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