Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world. Our success cannot be taken for granted. It is based on shared values of democracy, the rule of law, freedom, mutual respect and equality between men and women. Those values are accessible to every Australian whatever their cultural, racial or religious background—as it should be—but we must not take that for granted. And at the heart of our success is Australian citizenship. There is no office more important in a democracy than that of citizen, and we should treasure and honour our citizenship.

I am very disappointed that the Labor Party want to continue to treat Australian citizenship as the outcome of an administrative process of form filling.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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