Senate debates Questions without Notice

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection


George Brandis

George Brandis Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General

2:22 pm

Well, I will tell you what the Prime Minister believes—as every man and woman of this government also believes—and that is in a successful, multicultural Australia—

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting—

which, as we know from our own historical experience and from the historical experience of other nations as well, depends on public confidence that we are in control of our own borders so that, as John Howard once famously said, 'We decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come.'

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