Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, come on down. Do you know what he said to the people-smugglers once again? ‘You are going to be the people who make the choice about who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come.’ And if you do not have 15 thousand bucks for every man, woman and child in your family or whoever you want to bring then you are not going to come to this country. I can tell you that those opposite—who are sitting in a denial phase behind this pathetic policy and behind this pathetic statement about their not having got a decent deal—have not conned me, have not conned this place and have not conned the citizens of Australia.

Question agreed to.