Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we have been in a period of time when we have seen an increased number of arrivals, similar to peaks in activity that we have had in previous years. As I said, the last peak was in the period 1999 to 2001—figures that the Liberal Party now deny and refuse to put in the graphs that they produce publicly. Amazingly, when they produce their material now everything starts at 2005. They have no pride in the first half of the Howard government’s era—no pride at all. (Time expired)