Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Again, the answer to your question is clearly no. As Senator Brandis has once again articulated, Senator McKim, we are trying our very best to clean up the problem that you have made. When we left office in 2007, there was no-one in detention. When we came back to office in 2013, in excess of 50,000 people had arrived here illegally by boat and 1,200 people had died trying to make the passage to Australia. Despite all of your rhetoric, your false ignorance in relation to children and your confected outrage, in excess of 8,000 children were placed in detention behind bars because of decisions that you made.