Tourist visas
Matthew GUY (Bulleen) (09:38): Last night I raised a very important matter on the adjournment debate, and it has got to do with the Albanese government’s frankly racist policy of knocking out Indians trying to visit their family here in Australia. I raised a number of examples where Indian health workers living in the UK who have visited other countries around the world were simply trying to come to Australia on a tourist visa to visit their family being sponsored here in Australia. Another example was of people in their sixties, government workers with good jobs, with property, with a life back in Delhi, who have been to the United States, Canada and Great Britain but cannot get a tourist visa to come to Australia because the federal government have now instituted a discriminatory policy against Indians, particularly those wanting to come to visit their family in Australia.
What is most concerning is that the former Minister for Multicultural Affairs the member for Bundoora tried to knock out my statement to try and get the state government to advocate for Victoria’s Indian community. Why would someone do that? Why would the state Labor government support a racist policy against Indians in Australia? Why are the Labor Party and the left in this country institutionally racist? Why is the left in this country racist? Why do they hate Indian communities in this state? Why do they hate the Indian community? Why do these left-wingers in the inner city, driving Renaults, the worst – (Time expired)