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

Included on the list given to Senator Evans’s office was 14,001 non-working children who were on the visa. Why? Because workers are allowed to bring their children in. But, wait, there is more! At the bottom of the last page of the material provided to Senator Evans there is in bold print and in capital letters: ‘Figures marked with an asterisk are subject to sampling variability’—because this is a sample—‘too high for most practical purposes.’ Seven of the eight occupations selected by Senator Evans had the asterisk. So we have a leader of the opposition in the Senate who does not know what he is using. Furthermore, when he uses something and it has an asterisk that says, ‘Watch out, this is unreliable’, he chooses to use the unreliable data. But, wait, there is more! Remember that it was said by the job snobs opposite, ‘You’re letting in caravan park attendants’—and shame on you if you have a job as a caravan park attendant! We know where the shame now lies. Caravan park attendants and workers are not on the list. It would seem that, when it says ‘caravan park managers’ and you do not like it, you change it.