Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

If the honourable senator were genuinely concerned about children in detention, she would be mindful of the fact that, when the Labor government came to power in 2007, there were zero children in detention on Christmas Island. There were 155 children in detention on the mainland. Children in detention when Labor came to office in 2007: zero. Children in detention when the Labor-Greens government left office in 2013: 1,342, having peaked at 1,992 under the policies that Senator Hanson-Young championed. Can I remind her not only of the numerous children in detention as a result of that—