George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

This is a government that keeps its promises and, when we are unable to deliver on our promises, there is only ever one reason for it and that is because we are stopped from doing so in this chamber by the Australian Labor Party.

As Western Australians head for the polls on Saturday week, they will once again have a chance to cast their vote on whether they approve of the Liberal Party's strong border protection policies. At the last election we told people that, if elected, we would implement policies that would break the people smugglers' business model and restore integrity to our borders, and that is what we have done—unlike those opposite, who refuse to learn the lessons of history. We will not be deterred in our resolve to continue on to deliver on our promise to secure Australia's borders and implement the policies we announced.