Pat Conroy (Shortland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the Prime Minister. This question demonstrates the gross ignorance of the National Party when it comes to the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. I was proud to announce, with the foreign minister and the Prime Minister and others last week, that we actually exceeded our goal for this year on PALM visa entrants. When we came to power, there were 24,000 Pacific workers under the PALM scheme. We set a goal in the October budget of reaching 35,000 by 30 June this year. We reached that target in December last year—

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