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

I am not going to help myself, I have to refer to Senator Sea Patrol's—I mean, Senator Hanson-Young's—interjection: 'What are you going to do with the 800?' I can tell you, Senator Hanson-Young, we are doing a lot more with them than you ever did. Zero children in detention when you and the Labor government assumed office in 2007. Because of the policies that you implemented, in excess of 8,000 children were put behind bars. And you come into this place and have the audacity to try and tell the community that you have suddenly found your moral compass! Well, Mr President, I am very sorry: statistics do tell a story. In this regard, the story is boat after boat after boat, child after child after child, and it is this government that is cleaning up that mess.