House debates

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:19 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The hypocrisy knows no bounds. This is what the Leader of the Opposition said about migration on 2 September 2022:

It's too little, too late. This is a decision that should have been made 100 days ago when the government was elected, but of course they didn't do that.

That's what he said in September. Just in case you think that was a slip of the tongue and wasn't thought through, this is what he said a month later in a speech to the Tourism and Transport Forum leadership summit on 21 October 2022:

… we need migration.

The government's announcement to increase the permanent migration intake has been delayed because of union pressure.

That's what he had to say. What he actually knows—

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