Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Ruston, the answer to your question is very simple, and it's a seven-digit number—one million. One million visas—that was the backlog that we inherited from your government in visa applications. One million people, who had applied for visas to work in health care and a range of other industries—