Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What I would say to you, Senator Hanson, is that this government, in its approach to net overseas migration, will always be guided by the national interest. There will obviously be a balance of questions that the government has to address, which go to skills shortages but also to some of the issues that we've been discussing for some weeks now, including availability of housing supply, but the government will always make decisions on migration in the national interest.