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

went from 68,000 primary visa holders up to 110,000—an increase of 40,000. At the same time, the Leader of the Opposition was pretending to be the friend of the Australian worker. So the Australian public is starting to work out that there is something that does not add up about this Leader of the Opposition.

But it does not stop there. We know that this week the Leader of the Opposition has pretended to be the best friend of construction workers. The CFMEU have put robocalls into the member for Indi's electorate to try to pressure her on how she votes in this place. But, as we know from looking at the figures in relation to the 457 program, the number of construction workers who came on 457 visas when the Leader of the Opposition was the employment minister went up. They went up when he was the employment minister. This demonstrates— (Time expired)

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