Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Last week, when speaking about his immigration portfolio, the minister for immigration said:

The reality is Malcolm Fraser did make mistakes in bringing some people in the 1970s …

Which people was the minister referring to? Will the minister now apologise to Australia's hard-working migrant communities, including but not limited to the Vietnamese community?

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am not going to be misrepresented by this great fraud of Australian politics—I can assure you of that. I am not going to be bullied by this union leader. That may have been his working life—he may have bullied people and he may have doublecrossed everybody he has come across in his working life, but I will not be bullied and I will not be demonised by this union leader.

I made the point last week that we do have concerns about elements within Australian society at the moment, in particular some of those people who have been involved in criminal activity—some of those people who have been involved in heading off to Syria and to Iraq. I am not going to allow the rest of the community, in Sydney and Melbourne in particular, to be defined by those small elements who are besmirching the vast majority of people within their own communities. I am not going to allow that to happen. But, at the same time, Mr Speaker, I will tell you what—

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The members for Lindsay and Parramatta will leave under 94(a).

The members for Lindsay and Parramatta then left the chamber.

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Where I see extremism, I will call it out. Where I see people breaking the Australian law, I will call it out. Where I see people doing harm to Australians, I will call it out. And I will tell you what else I will call out, Mr Speaker: this weak Leader of the Opposition. You cannot pretend to be the alternative Prime Minister of this country but not have the resolve to deal with these issues.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Has the minister concluded his answer? The minister has concluded his answer.

Opposition members interjecting—

Members on my left!