Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. How many of the 2,900 visas of people on shore from Gaza have been cancelled?

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

I thank the member for his question, but the whole premise of it is wrong. There aren't 2,900 people on shore, and I've said that. If he'd followed that, he would have known—including from earlier questions today.

But I am asked about visitor visas, and I can tell, because of the financial year issue, that visitor visas for Ukrainians were 9,027 between 24 February 2022 and 30 June 2022.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause. The member for Wannon on a point of order.

Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's relevance. Of those who are here on shore, of those 2,900—that's what I asked—how many have had their visas cancelled? That is what I asked. How many?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! It's not an opportunity—

Government members interjecting—

Order! Members on my right will cease laughing. The member for Wannon is entitled to raise a point of order. The Prime Minister's answer has got to be directly relevant to the question he was asked. I ask him to return to the question.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to 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—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! When the House comes to order, we'll hear from the member for Robertson.