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

When you have a government that introduces a policy that is a successful policy and results in 181 days, to date, of no people arriving, it means that you can finally start to reverse the detention centre revolution that the other side put in place. Because we have reduced the number of people coming to Australia, because of the fact that a total of 1,127 people have voluntarily departed or been removed since the inception of Operation Sovereign Borders—this government is now able to commence to close, or in some cases has closed, the detention centres that the former government opened because of their failed policies. Senator Edwards is from South Australia. He will be well aware that the Inverbrackie detention centre will be closed by the end of 2014. That is because our policies work.