Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

John Howard never claimed he had fixed it. He knew that we had to deal with this in 25 of the previous 33 years. I remind those opposite that, in 2001, 5,516 people arrived; in the previous year, 2,939 arrived; in 1999, 3,721 arrived. Were you in charge of our borders then or were you failing?