Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (Senator Watt) to a question without notice I asked today in relation to migration.

I have to respond to Senator Watt's comment today on my question to him about the 75,400 illegals that are in the country on these visas, and nothing's being done about it. He couldn't even respond to it. He didn't know the numbers. He said, 'I don't know where you got your numbers from.' That tells me that he's not across it and he doesn't know what he's talking about. When you have 75,400 illegal visa holders in the nation, you have to question it, because this has an impact on our housing, our facilities, our doctors—everything like that. Yet we do not address the number of illegals in the country.

You question me about voting for Labor's policies. When you put up decent policies that will make a difference to this country and to the high immigration numbers, then you will get my support. I am the biggest advocate in this whole chamber for people pushing for Australia's way of life. What is happening with the high immigration under this government, with 1.4 million people coming into this country—that is why we have a crisis in housing, infrastructure, roads and health, seeing doctors, everything. So you're to blame for this. Put up decent policies, and I will back them.

What happened with the debacle of those detainees let out of detention centres? That was your problem as well, and your fault—everything that you've touched and done with people in this country. The number of students you've allowed into the country is over the top. As I've said, the students here should be allowed to work, by all means, but they're supposed to be here studying. They're doing plenty of work, to make $10 billion to send back to their respective countries.

There are a lot of questions here. You've failed to answer them on behalf of the Australian people, and this is why I keep questioning you. You don't like it. You can't answer it, and you can't answer the Australian people. That's why I will keep asking, on behalf of the Australian people, why we are overrun by illegal visa holders. One Nation will get rid of them.

Question agreed to.