Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I notice the Leader of the Opposition, at a time when we were celebrating Olympians coming back to Australia, a moment of national unity, chose once again to seek division this morning in an interview on Sky News. Under the former government, there was this organisation called the Taliban in Afghanistan, and that, of course, did not stop Australia from accepting people from Afghanistan—and rightly so. Similarly in Iraq, similarly in Syria with the chaos that occurred—a special visa was created for people from Syria, indeed. And the ASIO director-general, Mike Burgess, of course, made some comments about this on Sunday. He did also—

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