Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Was it the Prime Minister who said on the same program:

Our job … is to take a hard-line approach in dealing with the challenge of illegal immigration.

Has the minister told the Prime Minister that he considers the Prime Minister’s language ‘deliberately provocative’? If not, why not? Have you reminded the Prime Minister that it is not in the interests of this issue to ‘take the low road’? Or does the minister’s affected moral outrage and courage only extend to opposition senators?