Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I have to say, based on what I have heard in relation to what is a very serious disallowance motion, it can be summed up by saying: never let the facts get in the way of a good rant in the Senate. If I can commence by dispelling a number of the statements that have been made as if they are fact, which, I can assure those people who are listening, they clearly are not.

Senator Cameron would have the Senate and Australians believe that it is only those who support the coalition who utilise the 457 visa program. If your assertion, Senator Cameron, is that 457 visa holders displace Australian workers, I am sure that, when the former Prime Minister of this country, Ms Julia Gillard, employed John McTernan as her communications director, you were standing there in Caucus saying, 'I demand to see the labour market testing that Ms Gillard undertook before she employed Mr McTernan. I demand to known whether or not Mr McTernan has displaced an Australian.' Because I am sure you are aware that the former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard—