Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

That is a very astute supplementary question from Senator Bernardi. While we have been in government the Australian community has changed its attitude to migration. I note that, when Labor was in government around 1992, the proportion of people who said that immigration had gone too far or much too far was up at the 60 per cent level—60 per cent of people thought you had it wrong. That has come down now to under 30 per cent. So we have halved the dissatisfaction level on migration. The dissatisfaction level with the management of the migration program was double under you lot.

But there is more; oh, yes, there is more. If we look at who said immigration had not gone far enough and who had confidence in migration, what proportion was that? Only five per cent thought that under Labor. Something like 20 per cent think that under our government—four times as many people— (Time expired)