Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I am not going to be misrepresented by this great fraud of Australian politics—I can assure you of that. I am not going to be bullied by this union leader. That may have been his working life—he may have bullied people and he may have doublecrossed everybody he has come across in his working life, but I will not be bullied and I will not be demonised by this union leader.

I made the point last week that we do have concerns about elements within Australian society at the moment, in particular some of those people who have been involved in criminal activity—some of those people who have been involved in heading off to Syria and to Iraq. I am not going to allow the rest of the community, in Sydney and Melbourne in particular, to be defined by those small elements who are besmirching the vast majority of people within their own communities. I am not going to allow that to happen. But, at the same time, Mr Speaker, I will tell you what—

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