Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I said earlier, in terms of terrorist organisations, that I didn't want to add to the words of Mike Burgess or vary them. I've got the quote, so I'll read it directly: 'If you think terrorism is okay, if you think the destruction of the state of Israel is okay, if you think Hamas and what they did on 7 October is okay, I can tell you: that is not okay, and, from an ASIO security assessment point of view, you will not pass muster.' That is the test. That is the security test that's provided.

Now, the member asks what guarantee can be provided. I'll tell you: the guarantee is the guarantee of our security agencies being responsible and a government that has confidence in them—which, I might say, is the same guarantee the Leader of the Opposition would have provided with respect to 1,991 people coming from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. It's the same guarantee—

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