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 fact that, despite the government budgeting for what was 5,400 IMAs for the 2012-13 financial year—which was revised up on a number of occasions to ultimately 12,000—20,861 have arrived on 332 boats this financial year and over 24,000 people on 391 boats since the last election. Will the minister confirm that the budget produced prior to the 2010 election has blown out by over $5 billion, thanks to your failed border protection policies?