Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, there is no confliction here. We're talking about tightening up our border controls. We're talking about whatever we can do—which Labor fully supports. How can we stop the influx of illegal drugs coming into our nation? There's no argument. What's left for you to do, Senator Keneally? Would it be like a scene from Life of Brian where you have to paint it 100 times on the Parliament House walls—very clear what you've made there. What we are saying, with no confliction of getting our things mixed up here, is that it is not Australians who are bringing these drugs into our shores. If this government—and I accuse this government of all being smoke and mirrors. I accuse you of being half—I nearly said half arsed; that was lucky—interested in trying to pursue the sheriffs at the gate to stop drugs coming in. I go back to this: when you have a list, the powers to be, that says, 'These are the seafarers, this is the captain, these are the cooks and everything else on the ship', what and who does what with that list?