House debates

Tuesday, 5 September 2006

Personal Explanations

3:20 pm

Photo of Kim BeazleyKim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

The first was by the Prime Minister, who quoted from a speech I made in 1998 on migrants and then linked that speech to my argument against temporary entry visas under 457. Can I say that if he had listened to any of a dozen speeches I have made in workplaces in the last couple of months he would have heard me strongly defend the skilled migration program. I believe in skilled migrants; what I do not believe in is rorted, tenured, indentured labour—

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