Sabin Mike: Immigration Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSabin Mike: Immigration Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 13 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11160. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MIKE SABIN (National—Northland):The trouble with the member who has just resumed her seat Jan Logie is the assumption she makes that we are living in some sort of a vacuum in this world which actually bears no resemblance to reality and that we can just wax lyrical and theorise about things. But this is about having—Dr Rajen Prasad: Oh it’s the status quo that you want.MIKE SABIN: Do not get started Mr Prasad because I might just launch into that member as well. I might just launch into that member as well. The reality is that we are blessed in our geographic isolation in this nation. That is a positive thing in some senses but in some senses it also puts us in a position where in circumstances like these we have to make a call. Ultimately this is a country that takes 750 refugees under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agreement. We play our part—for a very small country in the world we play our part.If we look across the Tasman at our neighbour Australia and at the challenges that that nation is confronted with when it comes to mass arrivals and this issue of refugees there is no more salient message for us than seeing what happens there. The relationship that we must have with Australia and we do have with it and we have forged with it over this is very very important. So it is about doing our bit. But one thing is for sure. I ask those members who think: “Oh this is ludicrous. It could never happen. We will never get a mass arrival here.” how this country was founded at the end of the day. Did people drop in from Pluto on a spaceship or did they fly in a jumbo jet? They must have arrived on I do not know a boat—that is right a boat—which is an unusual assertion from the Opposition members if we are to believe what they say. People have been doing it for thousands of years.The fact that we have not had a mass arrival to date is amazing to say the least. At an estimated $50 million for a mass arrival I would like to suggest that the first people who would be up in arms who would be on the front page of the paper crying: “The sky has fallen in Turkey Lurkey!” would be the members from the Green Party followed very closely by their “mixed-ownership model friends” over there on the Labour benches. They would because they have the luxury of doing what Opposition parties become renowned for—that is picking winners and having all care and no responsibility. They want to take a position but they could not actually take a stand. They would not be in a position where they could make a decision as a Government because they are used to saying things that happen only in this hypothetical vacuum that they seem to live in.This bill the Immigration Amendment Bill is actually about pragmatic deterrence. It is about confronting the reality of the world that we now live in. I commend the Minister of Immigration for the work that he has done on this bill. It speaks volumes about a Government that will actually make the tough calls and that gets on with doing what needs to be done. Again that is the fundamental difference between this National-led Government and what is still languishing on the Opposition benches. That is what it comes down to. I have great delight in commending this bill to the House.