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

Mr President, Senator Evans, once given the document, should have bothered to ask of his staff: ‘What is this about? I want to ask a question on this. I want to go into the Senate and make an accusation on the basis of this, so can you please explain to me what this is?’ Instead of that, Senator Evans came in and asserted that this data is something other than what it is. This is not an indication of the principal applicants who have come in in any one year. It is not that. It is an estimate based on flow data derived from passenger cards. That is what it is.