Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

They were not to be seen. What about the 457 visas holders there, taking Australian jobs? The fact is that, if I am of the opinion that there are any 457 visa holders in this country taking Australian jobs, I will stand up, I will make a note of it and I will fight for those Australian jobs.

My grandfather came to Australia as a carpenter, from London. He was a Labor man. He was a unionist. He fought for workers' rights, and he got those workers' rights. If he saw the Labor Party of today, and the unions, he would turn in his grave, because they are not the Labor Party they were years ago. My parents were also Labor until they realised, and they changed. I did not know this. Actually I had no idea of my Labor background. My grandfather was on the Labor executive at the Ithaca in 1936, and I had no idea. You may criticise me for my fish-and-chip shop—