Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I refer to the fact that the most recent suspected illegal boat arrival into Western Australia on the weekend came so close to Australia that the boat was actually first spotted by campers and then intercepted by state, not Commonwealth, authorities. Doesn’t this confirm that Labor’s new immigration policy, mixed with its diminished border protection, is an open invitation to people smugglers and it is sending them a green light?