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

I will be frank with you, Senator, and say that I had assumed, without having read every word of the article, that the mayor or someone appropriately qualified in that sense had undertaken the formal role—and I refer you back to my earlier answer in that context. But if you want to put the proposition that at citizenship ceremonies no-one else is entitled to speak and give their views on an issue, and in particular that we should not include anyone from another country, an ambassador, to give such a speech, I think that is not an appropriate policy and it is not one that I would adopt. As you know, with citizenship ceremonies, the formal part—