Senate debates

Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Questions without Notice

Skilled Migration

3:00 pm

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

Sorry, Mr President. When Mr Beazley says, ‘Watch out for your kids, because they will be humiliated by foreigners coming in and taking their jobs, and the foreigners will come from low-income countries,’ that is code for ‘not like us’. That is what he is trying to say: ‘Your kids will be dispensed with, because foreigners will come and take their jobs.’ That appears to be the only way the Labor Party thinks it can get any traction. I have got news for the Labor Party—

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