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

I thank the honourable member for his question and for the hard work he does in his electorate of Flynn. As all Australians know, we've been able to stop boats and stop the drownings at sea, and get children out of detention centres and close 17 detention centres, and in securing our borders we've now turned our attention to making sure that we can cancel visas of criminals onshore who have committed serious offences against Australian citizens. We don't want people coming to our country who are going to victimise Australians. We don't want people coming to our country who are going to involve themselves in criminal activity.

One of the areas of concentration for us has been the cancellation of the visas of outlaw motorcycle gang members who are here as noncitizens. I can update the House today and say that so far we've cancelled 181 of those visas. It's important for a number of reasons. One of the principal activities of members of outlaw motorcycle gangs is the importation and distribution of the horrendous drug ice—a scourge right across the country, but in particular in regional areas.

One of the other main areas of endeavour for outlaw motorcycle gang members is to work in conjunction with members of the CFMEU. They work with the CFMEU because many elements of the CFMEU are also criminal in nature and they are involved in extortion on building sites around the country. If you follow the web, who else is associated with the CFMEU? The Leader of the Opposition. The Leader of the Opposition is cosy with the CFMEU because they support his position. At the conference, he can't get his position on policy up, particularly in relation to boats—he didn't at the last conference—without the bloc of the CFMEU. If only it stopped there. The reality is that the Labor Party accepts millions and millions of dollars from the CFMEU. I notice, reading the fine journal The Courier-Mail this morning, that it had this wonderful story—

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