Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I am shattered. I can hardly speak! The simple answer to that is that the government support this bill. We have had discussions with colleagues about what changes we could make to accommodate the concerns of colleagues and the concerns of the Senate. What final package we put before the House of Representatives and the Senate remains to be seen, because we are in negotiation. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot say on the one hand, ‘You lot don’t listen to us,’ and then, when we do listen, complain that we are listening. I think the public understands here that we are listening to concerns. We are listening to the Senate report. We are listening to the concerns of colleagues, and that is what we should be doing.