Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Integration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

While it is a hypothetical, it is a hypothetical that the Prime Minister asserts and he uses that term. I use the expression deliberately, with respect to assimilation. What the minister said in terms of the importance of integration is something with which I do not differ, and it is why my portfolio has integration in the title. But it is curious that the Prime Minister, quite explicitly, purports something that the minister now tells us is not government policy. Minister, the media unit is not being used in the way it used to be used. Could you please explain how the role of the media unit has changed now that you are the minister?

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