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

I inform the member that the figure is less than half of the figure that he used, of 2,900; therefore, the whole premise of the question is simply wrong. For visitor visas for Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis, who have, of course, also been subject to conflict and control—Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban and Syria has been in a civil war with parts of it controlled by ISIS, as, of course, has Iraq as well—those figures, from the 2013-14 financial year to 2022, are: 1,991 people from Afghanistan, 4,994 from Iraq and 1,505 from Syria—all granted visitor visas by the former government, all in circumstances where Islamic State was in control of large parts of Iraq and Syria from 2014 to 2019, Syria has been in civil war since 2012 and the Taliban have been in control of large parts of Afghanistan for that entire period.

Honourable members interjecting—

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