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

and that officials have attributed this blow-out to the increase in boat arrivals. Given that more than 15,000 people—including 1,221 so far this year—have now arrived on unlawful boats since the government's decision to abolish the border protection policies of the Howard government, does the government agree that former Prime Minister Rudd was wrong to abolish the Howard government's proven border protection measures, which reduced the number of boats coming to Australia to zero?