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

I thank the honourable member for his question and thank him for being a champion in this parliament for Australian values and asking no more of people than that they abide by Australian laws if they want to be an Australian citizen. The government has been very deliberate, as we have discussed in recent weeks, that we do want to make sure that, if people want to become Australian citizens, we want them to abide by Australian laws, we want them to abide by Australian values and we want them to provide for their families in the same way that many hundreds of thousands of people who have come here as migrants under the refugee and humanitarian program, for example, should continue to contribute into the future.

It is not every day that I quote the Fairfax press, but today I feel compelled. Do you know why, Mr Speaker? As it turns out, the Labor Party are not only tearing themselves apart on border protection policy; they are tearing themselves apart on what I think is a pretty fundamental and easy question to answer—that is: do you support the government's position in relation to enhancing our citizenship changes? As it turns out, they do not.

Dr Aly interjecting—

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