George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

So, I do think that it is compassionate and thoughtful to superintend a policy which has saved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives at sea, because, as we know, under the previous government's immigration policy at least 1,200 people—men, women, children and infants—drowned in the ocean, drowned at sea. And those are only the ones we know about; there are numberless others that we will never know of who drowned at sea. Because of policies implemented by Mr Scott Morrison and Mr Peter Dutton—