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

There was a time when the Liberal Party would have seen people fleeing, whether they were fleeing Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Vietnam or Gaza at the moment, and would have had some understanding that this was the worst time to try to malign a whole group of people who are suffering enormously. It's something that we see on our TV screens every night. This morning, if you turned on the radio, the latest hit was a school in Gaza, with real people devastated and losing their lives.

When it comes to security processes, we have faith in our intelligence agencies. They work. Our security and law enforcement agencies do their job on an ongoing basis. We have faith in them. The opposition apparently don't, even though they're the same security agencies and, indeed, the same personnel.

We talk about character when it comes to targeting groups. Whether it is the Lebanese, people in the South Pacific, the Chinese or the entire continent of Africa, they're all fair game. If you're an au pair from Europe and someone can pick up the phone, no problem—you're in.

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