Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the minister has been unable to confirm the arrival of 22 boats and 985 unauthorised arrivals since the Senate rose last year, will the minister concede that the continuing surge of boats over the monsoon season, which is traditionally a period of low arrivals, demonstrates that the people-smuggling industry has been invigorated by the Rudd government’s weakening of Australia’s once strong border protection policies?