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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I remind the minister that Mr Rudd personally promised that he would take a very hard line on the question of people smuggling—a very tough line on people smuggling. I also remind the minister that Mr Rudd said just four days before the 2007 election that he would turn the boats back and take appropriate action as the vessels approached Australia on the high seas. Why did Mr Rudd break both of those promises? And how can the Australian people trust the Prime Minister who started the boats to stop the boats?