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

From the howls on the other side, you know exactly where we are going if they are ever elected back to office. I listened to a news interview of the shadow minister, Richard Marles, the other day. Yet again, he failed to commit Labor if they were elected to office to the policy of turn-backs. Turn-backs have been integral to the success of Operation Sovereign Borders. The success of Operation Sovereign Borders, if you look at the statistics, is undeniable—one boat in the 18 months since the implementation of Operation Sovereign Borders, compared to 534 in the last 18 months of the former government. If those opposite are re-elected, all we do know is that we will return to the cost, chaos and tragedy that for six long years the Australian public had to put up with.