Mr MORRISON (Cook—Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) (14:21): I thank the member for Ryan for her question. She will be pleased to know, as will her constituents, that in dealing with this current threat, this elevated level of threat of counter-terrorism, we as a government are dealing with from a greater position of strength than we certainly inherited. When we are dealing with this issue, we are dealing with an environment where our border agencies have had $700 million of cuts reversed by this government to put greater support and resources on our borders to ensure that we act from a position of strength. We are also integrating our border agencies with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to ensure that we act from a position of strength. This government is also not acting from a position of weakness, where our borders were surrendered, where crisis and chaos rained down on the previous government, completely overwhelming their border agencies because of the border chaos. It has been 85 days since the last solitary people-smuggling venture to this country. We are coming from a position of strength— Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Isaacs will desist! Mr MORRISON: which is my point. And, from a position of strength, we are giving our agencies the support and resources they need to do the job at this very important time. An additional $150 million is going into our border agency specifically to deal with counter-terrorism activities. That $150 million is giving them the tools they need to do this job. The counter-terrorism unit has been in operation now for some time. Those 80 officers are in place, and being put in place, across the network. Already they have been involved directly in 40 offloads of passengers, and that includes groups of passengers, as a result of their activities since those operations began. We are also in the process of introducing outward advance passenger processing so that we can be ahead of the game when it comes to ensuring that we are providing the protection necessary; the expansion of the airline liaison officer network, which puts more people across the network outside of Australia to ensure we have a better heads up on those who are coming to Australia; and, of course, the expansion of biometrics.