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

In the 457 program that I was asked about in relation to this question—I was asked on 457 visas—the Leader of the Opposition pretended to be somebody he was not when he was the employment minister. That has been demonstrated time and time again in this place—

A government member: We have highlighted it.

And we will continue to highlight it, as we should, because we have been able to knock out that crazy 457 Labor-supported program.

At the same time, I was asked about the citizenship changes. We made an important point in the last fortnight. We have made the important point that we are going to stress a new set of rules for people to become Australian citizens, because we want people to adhere to Australian laws, we want them to abide by those laws and we want people to abide by the laws and values of this country. It is important.

But, importantly—and we are going to spend a lot of time on this—we have not heard any response yet from the Leader of the Opposition in relation to the changes that we have proposed. It says a lot about the character of this Leader of the Opposition— (Time expired)

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