House debates Questions without Notice

Skilled Migration

Wednesday, 6 September 2006 House of Representatives

Kim Beazley

Kim Beazley Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

2:13 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister’s refusal to take the previous question, I ask him: Prime Minister, who decided that Mr Zhang would come to this country, and the conditions and circumstances in which he would work?

John Howard

John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

That decision would have been made in accordance with the operation of a policy which has been more widely used by the Labor health department in New South Wales than any other organisation in the country.