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

I thank the honourable member for Canning very much for his question. It is a fact that this government has been about putting Australians first when it comes to putting people into jobs. That is the claim of this government not only in our words but in our deeds and actions. We have worked to tidy up the 457 program, which was exploited by the Labor Party when they were in government, exploited by the Labor Party that took the opportunity to bring foreign workers into this country and put them in places otherwise occupied by Australian workers. There has been a lot of hypocrisy from this Leader of the Opposition on display in question time today, but the hypocrisy demonstrated by this Leader of the Opposition has been on display for many, many years. In question time today there is a contest of character going on, and this Leader of the Opposition fails it at every turn. They have sought today to besmirch the reputation of the Prime Minister of this country, a man who started with nothing, worked hard, employed Australians and created businesses. They want to contrast him to this Leader of the Opposition, who has run around for years conjuring up dodgy deals not in the interests of union workers but solely in the interests of union bosses. He used the 457 program—

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