Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We are having a very strange day in question time indeed. I regret to inform the member that I do not have committed to memory every page of the budget and every line item in the budget. In the time that I have been in this parliament, possibly the former member for Bradfield might have been able to achieve that feat, but I am not aware of anybody else with that capacity. Obviously, when budget appropriations were done they were done appropriately. As I have said in this parliament before, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship works through—

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