Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

A claim that you would be more worthy to be an Australian based on where you're from, not who you are. I remind the Leader of the Opposition of some of the people who've come to this nation who are not from liberal democracies. He wanted to refer to the Snowy River Scheme. I'd remind him that the number of people who came post World War II who had been living in fascist Europe, not in a liberal democracy. There are number of people who've come from the former USSR, including Australia's proud Ukrainian community, who had not come from a liberal democracy. There are members of Australia's Chinese communities who, ever since the days of the gold rush, have been coming and building this country—and not coming from a liberal democracy. The Vietnamese community are not from a liberal democracy. We love Australia for the nation that we are, not a warped idea turning people against each other.

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