Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, Senator McKim, it was $17 billion; that is how I am justifying it. There was $17 billion worth of taxpayer money that had to be outlaid to protect Australians from your border protection failures. There were 50,000 people who arrived on 800 boats and 1,200 lives were lost at sea.

Honourable senators interjecting—

There were 8,000 children detained while Labor was in government, and in July 2013, let's just remind people, 10,201 people were in detention— (Time expired)