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

signed off on a deal to support 800 Chinese workers who were sponsored by a single Chinese-owned construction company to work at the Sino Iron Project in Western Australia. I want to ask you how that is consistent with some of the words of the Leader of the Opposition. If I just quote a couple—and there are plenty; we can come back to them another day. This is the Leader of the Opposition:

… if there's a project which is $150 million-plus in Western Australia, say a hotel or a construction development, I want to see Western Australian riggers and dogmen get jobs, I want to see Western Australian carpenters, labourers and mechanics and designers and drafts people get those jobs.

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I am saying that I want Australians to get the first chance to work on our projects. When did it become so unacceptable to stand up for Australian jobs?—

he said, so sincerely at the time.

There are plenty of households in the Canning electorate where you have got trained construction workers, where you have got people with the sort of skills that can work on projects …

I tell you what, Mr Speaker: don't trust a word that Bill Shorten says. Don't trust a word that this Leader of the Opposition says. He is a con—

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