Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Bass for his question. It is true that the union bosses are involving themselves in a racist attack at the moment in relation to the free trade agreement between our country and China, but of course there is precedent for this. The unions have involved themselves in these xenophobic campaigns, these scare campaigns, trying to scare the Australian public into believing something that is not true in relation to visa programs. Take the 457 visa program, for example. We all know that this country has been built over many, many generations by skilled migrants who have come to this country—

Mr Champion interjecting—

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