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

Again, unfortunately, I have to reject the premise of everything that Senator McKim has said in relation to the categorisation of the Manus Regional Processing Centre. Senator McKim, we are going to have to agree to disagree in relation to this issue. We are cleaning up the mess that you created when you, with the former Labor government, lost control of our borders. As I've already stated, 50,000 people came to this country illegally on over 800 boats. Twelve hundred people, Senator McKim, lost their lives at sea—those are the ones we know of. Over 8,000 IMA children were detained, and, at the height of the policy failure, there were almost 2,000 children in detention. For once in your life, could you please take responsibility for your actions.