Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I will just start that sentence again, Mr President, because there was a bit of interjection over there. The immigration minister pointed to charges laid against a tiny number of second- and third-generation Lebanese Australians—who, by the way, are Australians, Attorney—as proof for his ignorant and divisive claim. Do you accept that by making these remarks Mr Dutton has made the government's attempts to engage with Australian Muslims more difficult and, by doing so, has undermined the government's deradicalisation agenda?