Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I think Australians know that we had a problem in the past and that the Howard government fixed it. My supplementary question, and I refer specifically to the minister’s assertion that ‘we are not going to lock up children’, is: is it true that 427 children as of today are in detention as a direct result of Labor’s softened border protection policies? Can he explain where the humanity is in that?