Sue Boyce (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Acting Deputy President, and I make the point that I will be speaking briefly to give my colleague Senator O'Sullivan the opportunity to speak as well.

What a delight to have the chance to talk about twisted priorities because the most twisted of any priorities have to be the priorities of the people opposite, of the opposition in this house. What a performance they have put on. Listening to the comments just made by Senator Thorp, I suppose NRAS may have been a successful program in Tasmania because they did not have enough overseas students to fill up the houses—which is what happened in Sydney. Once again a policy of the Labor government—we already have royal commissions into some of them—that they were unable to implement.