Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is the budget discussion. This is the one time of the year when ministers are meant to turn up here and answer questions about their portfolio and what's in the budget. I'd just record how disrespectful it is, not just to the parliament but to the people who actually care about what's in the immigration portfolio, that the Minister for Immigration, Citizen, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs isn't here. I've never seen this. It's my fifth year in this place and I've never seen a minister actually not have the guts to turn up and answer questions about their portfolio. Under this government we have seen—

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