Morrison and Albanese clash over border security policy

Описание: Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese clashed over border security and boat turnbacks in a fiery discussion at tonight’s Peoples’ Forum.

The two leaders were asked about their respective scare campaigns before Mr Morrison began grilling the Labor leader over boat arrivals in Australia under his watch as deputy prime minister.

Mr Albanese pointed to his government’s move to establish offshore detention centres, before Mr Morrison cut him off and asked: “When you were Deputy Prime Minister, why didn’t you support turn backs then?”

But the Labor leader fired back, shouting at the Prime Minister: “You weren’t proposing back then. You were not back then”.

“I’m sorry we were, it was our policy. Turn backs were our policy before the 2013 election. I was the Shadow Immigration Minister. I designed the policy,” Mr Morrison said.