Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I stand here today as a proud member—on the eve of 10 years of the Howard government—of a government which has delivered real changes, real reforms and real gains for the Australian people, particularly young people in Australia. The member for Watson, the mirage from Watson, is a person who I believe is acting in a hypocritical manner. If he were interested in this issue at all, he, as the Labor Party’s spokesperson on migration, would join the Joint Standing Committee on Migration—if he could—and make a contribution. The committee struggled for a while to get a Labor Party member. Their spokesman was not even interested. They had to scout around until they got somebody. So his real interest in the migration committee is only peripheral and superficial, because he does not even want to be in the main committee body of this parliament—he only wants to be the spokesman for it.

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