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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the government's no fewer than, but potentially not limited to, five separate policies for dealing with the asylum seekers, including the processing freeze on arrivals from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, the East Timor processing centre—my personal favourite—the Manus Island policy, the failed Malaysian people-swap policy and the fifth and latest policy of onshore processing. Given the abject failure to date of all of these policies to stop the boats, when does the government intend to find its way and restore the Howard government's policies, which actually worked?