Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. To continue along the long line of failures, I refer to the comments, as reported in the Australian newspaper, of an Afghan asylum seeker who reached Australia after the High Court demolished the government's so-called Malaysia agreement, which said:

… he easily found a people-smuggler in Indonesia after being told the "route was open again".

Isn't it the case that, since the government abolished the Pacific solution and temporary protection visas, the Rudd-Gillard government and their policies have become the people smugglers' business model?