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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Conroy. I remind the minister that, under the Gillard Labor government, Australia has now seen an average of more than 100 people arriving illegally by boat every day this month, and, in the last six years of the Howard government, fewer than 200 people arrived on illegal boats. Under this government, Australia has seen more arrivals in just three days than in 2,190 days under the former Howard government. Why is this government at war with itself rather than at war with the people smugglers?