Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

There are some very important issues here about the trigger which we use to invoke the character test, and the impact that this has on a number of permanent residents who have spent the vast majority of their lives in this country, whose families may, indeed, have spent their entire lives in this country and, for all intends and purposes, consider themselves to be Australians.

I will seek, when parliament resumes, and we resume debate on this legislation, to really set out some of the examples in Western Australia where these triggers have been—

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