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

Read the speech—it’s a fabulous read! But, guess what? It is not just any foreigners. Oh, no! Not the people from Bristol and Birmingham and Blackpool. It is the people from Beijing and Bombay and Beirut that we need to look at. And because Mr Beazley is not prepared to say that is what he means, what he says is ‘people from low-income countries’. That is the euphemism that is used. Then a press release is put out, just in case we were not sure which low-income countries we were talking about. So I do not welcome that part of the question.

The senator does not seem to appreciate the cost of bringing people into Australia. People do not want to bring foreign people from overseas into Australia at their expense unless they need them. It is just as simple as that.