Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Noting the fact that Labor leaders Rudd and Gillard both promised one thing before an election and did another thing afterwards on border protection, I ask: is it a fact that the dismantling of the former coalition government's effective border protection policy was begun under Labor leader Rudd and continued under Labor leader Gillard, with disastrous consequences for asylum seekers who have drowned and taxpayers who now foot the billion dollar annual bill, not to mention Labor's credibility?