Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I wish to inform the chamber that Senators Ciccone, Walsh and Sheldon will also sponsor the motion. At the request of Senators Keneally, Ciccone, Walsh and Sheldon, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) Australia is a nation of migrants – it is a part of our national identity, and the migrant story is our Australian story,

(ii) Australians have welcomed people from every corner of the globe and we have grown stronger together because new Australians have moved here, settled down, raised families, started businesses, and enriched our culture and our economy,

(iii) Australia celebrates the generations of migrants who have made the international leap of faith,

(iv) under the Morrison Government, we are seeing a change in our nation – one built by permanent migrants – to an economy reliant on temporary migrants,

(v) this shift is changing Australia, for the worse, and it is happening without most Australians even realising,

(vi) the Liberal National Government asked the Productivity Commission to examine the migrant intake into Australia in March 2015,

(vii) the Productivity Commission delivered over 700 pages of analysis and assessment in its Migrant Intake into Australia Report to then-Liberal National Government Treasurer Mr Scott Morrison in April 2016, and

(viii) neither Mr Morrison, nor the Government ever responded to this crucial work; and

(b) condemns the Morrison Government for their failure to:

(i) respond to the Productivity Commission Report examining the Migrant Intake into Australia, and

(ii) action any of the recommendations from the Productivity Commission Report.

Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is not granted.

Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is not granted.

Question agreed to.

Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr President, as you foreshadowed in your earlier statement today, and in lieu of calling a division, I ask that coalition senators be recorded as having voted against notice of motion 527.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We take the statement by Senator Smith on behalf of coalition senators—we're all getting used to the new practices.