House debates

Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Questions without Notice

Middle East: Migration

2:23 pm

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

Last Wednesday, the Leader of the Opposition said:

I don't think people should be coming in from that war zone at all at the moment. It's not prudent to do so and I think it puts our national security at risk.

That's what he said last Wednesday in welcoming Olympians home. The fact is that that came three months after there was a shutting of the Rafah border crossing, which occurred in May.

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