Andrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As the member for La Trobe should remember, because he was in this place, we supported, in 2014, the changes introduced by the former government to the character cancellation regime. We believe it is important that we cancel visas where appropriate—that we deny visas and cancel visas as appropriate.

We also think that this is an area where a commonsense approach is required because we have seen unintended consequences of the regime that was put in place by the former government. We have been working through those, having regard in particular to the critical importance of our relationship with our good friends in New Zealand. These are issues—

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These are issues—

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