The Coalition government has been under fire since last week when reports emerged that people smugglers had been paid $5000 in cash each to turn their boats around and sail back to Indonesia.

Tony Abbott refused to deny the reports in the face of repeated questions by radio presenter Neil Mitchell, who asked: "But surely we wouldn't pay people smugglers, they are criminals?"

Now Labor is also under fire, with multiple sources saying that the previous government also paid people smugglers.

With both of the major parties now implicated in payments to people smugglers, can you guess which politicians had the following things to say about them?