Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw the word ‘lie’. It is a grubby attempt to scare people in the electorate in a desperate attempt to restore some voting strength to their original base—a base they betrayed many years ago. What we are seeing is a stunt, plain and simple—an exercise in promoting xenophobia. We are seeing an explicit strategy by the Labor Party to promote xenophobia—to create misplaced fear and misinformation—as a means of appealing to a voter base they betrayed long ago. We know that is the case; we are hearing it out of the ACTU. We will see this all the way through to the election.

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