James Paterson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. At Senate estimates earlier this month the Department of Home Affairs confirmed that between 7 October and 31 December the department granted 2,127 visitor visas and an additional 148 migration and temporary visas to people with Palestinian identity documents. An ABC report on 9 December last year said that some visas were being processed in less than an hour. Can the minister confirm that adequate security checks were conducted on all of the individuals from Gaza who were granted visas?