George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Di Natale, I think it is very unfortunate that you would continue in your denunciation of the President elect of the United States of America, with whose administration the Australian government will work and needs to work for years to come. What we in this government believe in, as I was trying to point out to you before, is a successful, cohesive multicultural society, and that depends upon public confidence in our immigration program, and, in particular, public confidence that it is the government, not the people smugglers, who decide who gets to come to Australia to settle. We run one of the most compassionate and generous refugee and resettlement programs in the world. We run, arguably, the most successful resettlement services in the world, and Mr Peter Dutton presides over the success of those programs— (Time expired)