Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

All of the government members are saying this is not true. This is the government's own data. If you fall in love with someone from the UK, the USA or Germany, you get your visa in an average of seven to nine months. If you commit the great sin of falling in love with someone from China or from India, it's at least 18 months and often more. Why do you discriminate against people who fall in love with people from China and India? Then there's Afghanistan. Those opposite yell and they scream, but these are their own facts, their own data. If you fall in love with someone from Afghanistan, it takes, on average, 43 months.

A government member: It's not for the reason you're implying.

It is a country that is so unsafe that the government's pulled out every diplomat from that country—

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