Senator ABETZ ( Tasmania — Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Employment ) ( 14:23 ): If the honourable senator were genuinely concerned about children in detention, she would be mindful of the fact that, when the Labor government came to power in 2007, there were zero children in detention on Christmas Island. There were 155 children in detention on the mainland. Children in detention when Labor came to office in 2007: zero. Children in detention when the Labor-Greens government left office in 2013: 1,342, having peaked at 1,992 under the policies that Senator Hanson-Young championed. Can I remind her not only of the numerous children in detention as a result of that— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator Di Natale, a point of order? Senator Di Natale: Mr President, I raise a point of order. I think Senator Abetz has just misled the parliament— The PRESIDENT: That is not a point of order. Senator Di Natale: The Greens voted against the legislation every time—every time! The PRESIDENT: Senator Di Natale, that is not a point of order. That was a debating point. Senator Abetz, you have the call. Senator ABETZ: The simple fact is that, on every single occasion that the Australian Greens had the opportunity, they kept the government in power that put those children into detention—and you know it. And what is more, very, very, very sadly, that is why we as a government were so committed to breaking the racket of people smuggling, that criminal activity of people smuggling, because not only did it see children ending up in detention; it also regrettably saw children ending up at the bottom of the sea. That is why we as a government are absolutely perplexed that the Labor Party and the Greens, if ever given power again, would combine to ensure that the temporary protection visa and other border protection policies that we have implemented would be repealed. When confronted with the fact of deaths at sea— (Time expired)