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

Thanks, Senator Hanson. As I say, we recognise that, post the pandemic, the migration number that Australia was receiving was not sustainable and needed to be dealt with. As I say, much of this was the result of policy failures under the coalition government, in particular by Mr Dutton, going back to his time as the home affairs minister. In fact, Mr Dutton, as the home affairs minister, set the all-time record for visas granted, with 9.6 million granted in 2017-18 and more than nine million for three years, running from 2016-17.