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

We saw yesterday that that Daily Telegraph had a story in relation to the Leader of the Opposition. He claimed to be the great friend of the Australian worker and to put Australian workers first, but, as it turned out, the Leader of the Opposition, when he was in government as the employment minister, had signed off on special deal for McDonald's and KFC to employ foreign workers over Australian workers. So we have seen example after example over the course of the last 12 months or so of this Leader of the Opposition being completely untrustworthy. You cannot trust a word that this Leader of the Opposition says. He says one thing in here and something very different when he gets outside.

The difficulty for the Leader of the Opposition is that his hypocrisy does not just stop with the agreement for McDonald's. As the foreign minister pointed out before, the Leader of the Opposition was out there railing against the free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China when the reality was he was doing something very different when he was the employment minister. He was out there saying that he wanted to put Australians first. Yet, we have seen in the Daily Tele today that the then employment minister, the now Leader of the Opposition—

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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