Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is right. And if we agree, it will be five years! No doubt there will be a rushed amendment coming in, because the government will say: ‘We have to differentiate from the Labor Party; we can’t have the Labor Party and the government having the same policy on citizenship. There has to be differentiation.’ Mark Textor will be on the phone saying, ‘You’ve got to change this; we’ve got to have an extra year in.’ This is a disgrace, and it will be opposed.

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