Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and follows the previous answer that he gave to this side of the House. Prime Minister, who decided that Mr Fu would come to this country and the circumstances in which he would come?

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do not know the precise—

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John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We now have the latest little stunt. Everything is a stunt with this mob. They do not have any policy.

Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Swan interjecting

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Lilley!

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One minute 457s are bad—

Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Swan interjecting

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lilley is warned!

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

and the next minute they have every state Labor premier running around. The precise circumstances of that particular gentleman’s arrival are a matter on which I would have to get advice. The Leader of the Opposition credits me with supernatural powers. I have to disappoint him and say I am not possessed of them. I do have to act on advice. I will get advice and I will write him a letter advising him. In the course of writing him that letter I will also enclose a copy of some of the correspondence that the minister for immigration has received from the state Labor ministers.