Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I want to take the House through what has just happened because we only have a short period of time and we have been joined by many members who were not here during this debate. I just want to remind the House that the member for Watson started this amendment debate today by suggesting that we debate this issue. This issue is so important to the Leader of the Opposition that the member for Watson tried to bring on a debate on a non-sitting day! So the contention of the opposition was that we would all come here to Canberra and have a debate—

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