Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In the same interview the Prime Minister stated that he believed in an ‘orderly immigration system’. What is orderly about 15 boat arrivals with more than 800 people on them in the last seven weeks alone? How does the minister justify the Prime Minister’s statement given that, since the election of Rudd Labor, Australia’s border protection has been comprehensively compromised, people smugglers emboldened and a clear election promise broken?