Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

It is called resolve, it is called commitment, it is called having a spine—something that those on the other side continually lack when it comes to protecting Australia's borders. You need only see what happened in caucus today, which is that they want to reopen the debate in relation to offshore processing. There were dragged kicking and screaming to the table last time they had to sit next to us and support offshore processing. We know that they continue to be divided on this matter. The only thing that those on the other side will turn back, if they are ever elected to government again, is the strong border protection policies of the Howard and Abbott governments. The Australian people should be very, very afraid of Labor and their stance on border protection. We need only look at what the former minister for immigration, Mr O'Connor, said today— (Time expired)