Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. As I say, this is a very important area and it is very important that we have a public debate on it. As I have been advised by the department—and that advice was affirmed by the Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration—we need to attend to the rorts. Quite simply, you either support the reforms or you support the rorts.

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