Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

That is exactly what happened. We have heard the contributions and seen what happened, with a Nationals senator this morning talking about the backpacker tax. But he is not prepared to cross the floor to help rural and regional Australia—no, he will not do that when it comes to the backpacker tax. But what he will do is cross the floor in support of bringing in an automatic gun. Where are the priorities, I ask?

We know that Mr Turnbull has a very divided caucus. We know that because we hear the mutterings around Parliament House all the time and we read about it in the newspaper. What I find extraordinary is that the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Mr Dutton, has been, as I understand—

Senator McGrath interjecting—