Mr DUTTON (Dickson—Minister for Home Affairs) (15:01): I thank the honourable member for Herbert for his question and thank him for his service to our country. He does a wonderful job in Townsville in his electorate of Herbert. He's a great supporter of the government's strong policy to make sure that people who come to our country and don't abide by the law face deportation. It's a pretty simple proposition. We welcome millions of people to our country, and 99 per cent of them do the right thing. If you come to our country and you commit an offence against a child or against an Australian citizen otherwise, you face deportation. We're very clear about it. We tightened the law in 2014, and we've now deported 4½ thousand criminals. We've made Australia a safer place as the result of that. We're proposing to tighten the law even further, and yet the Labor Party are opposed to this. Amazingly, this concept has obviously escaped Senator Keneally, the shadow minister for home affairs: we're elected in this place to represent the Australian people, not the New Zealanders and not the New Zealand parliament or the New Zealand government. We are elected to represent the Australian people. This government acts in the interests of the Australian people, but Senator Keneally is out there saying that she doesn't support this tightening of the law to kick out criminals, because she is doing the bidding of the New Zealand government. The Labor Party can adopt all these hypothetical positions if they want, but I'll tell you why it matters. There was a case which was highlighted in the Herald Sun earlier this week, and it goes to a very sad case in Victoria—and I'll read from John Rolfe's article: THE sister of a woman murdered by an immigrant already been convicted of a serious crime in Australia is demanding shadow citizenship minister Kristina Keneally "spend a day in the life of our family" after Labor senators came out against a bill that would spare others their heartache. Turkish-born Mustafa Kunduraci stabbed Korinne Aylward and her partner Greg Tucker to death in their lounge room in December 2013 after a dispute over a plastering job he had done— Mr Gosling interjecting— Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER: If the minister could just pause, and we will stop the clock. To those members interjecting, the members for Solomon and Lyons: cease interjecting. The point you're making is invalid. I'm not going to revisit the issue. If they want to learn about the basis of my ruling, they'll need to look at what the standing orders are on questions as compared to answers. It might be a better idea if they spent some time reading the Practice rather than interjecting. The minister has the call. Mr DUTTON: The article goes on. But, nearly four years earlier, he had violently attacked and threatened to kill a former partner. Had character test legislation now proposed by the federal government been in place at the time that earlier crime would have likely led to him being booted out of Australia. We are not dealing in hypotheticals here. When we look at the 4½ thousand cases, these are people who in many instances have committed serious crimes against children and women in our country. We are not going to resile from the fact that we've been elected to represent and support the Australian public and to act in our national interest, and that is exactly what the Morrison government will continue to do.