Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I indicated to the senator—but she does not seem to understand—that the existing immigration and employment frameworks will continue. If she had any understanding of what those existing immigration and employment frameworks were, she would understand that the circumstances under which the Labor government allowed workers from overseas to come into Australia will remain the same under the Chinese free trade agreement that we have just been able to negotiate. So what we have here is a Leader of the Opposition, a shadow minister for trade, who is willing to run a scare campaign completely ignorant of the regime that she was part of when she was a minister in the previous six years. Can I say to Senator Cameron, Senator Wong and the ACTU— (Time expired)