Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:53): More people came from Syria under visitor visas when they were in government, when ISIS was in charge of a large amount of Syria, than the 1,300 people who have come from the occupied Palestinian territories. Can I note this as well: there have been 5,491 visitor visas granted from Israel as well. And let me say this: those people are welcome here. What is going on here is so obvious, and the member for Groom is certainly very conscious of it. You know it's a shocker when no-one on the frontbench will ask you. It goes up the back, in order to sledge a whole group of people who live in Western Sydney. I say this to those opposite: you can continue to sledge people in Western Sydney. What I'll continue to do as Prime Minister is represent the entire nation, including the good people of Western Sydney. They know that we take the same advice from the same security agencies, as the previous government did. We've rejected more than 7,000 visa applications. They also know—the member for Groom mightn't know, because he just asked the question he was given, so I don't blame him—that the Rafah Border Crossing is controlled by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities and it has been closed since May. But the member for Groom didn't come here from anywhere in the Middle East. Well, while people were coming in from the Middle East, under the previous government, the member for Groom wasn't here, to be fair, otherwise maybe he would have been asking questions in parliament about— Honourable members interjecting— Ms Rishworth interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! Members on my left and right will cease. The Minister for Social Services will cease interjecting so I can hear the member for Wannon on a point of order. Mr Tehan: This goes to relevance. The question is: why is Australia handing out tourist visas to Gazans from a terrorist controlled war zone in an average of 24 hours? The SPEAKER: The Deputy Leader of the House, on a point of order. Mr Butler: He didn't require the question to be reworded, but it was a wide-ranging sledge. Surely any answer that the Prime Minister gives is able to come within the contours of that sledge of a question. The SPEAKER: The question at the end was about shoring up votes and a question around that type of nature, particularly electorates, which the Prime Minister was referring to about Western Sydney, of course, is being directly relevant. Just make sure that, if he's talking about electorates, perhaps he can go into greater detail about the electorates. But, if you're going to ask a question that has a political— Mr Hamilton interjecting— The SPEAKER: I know, the Member for Groom, you're not in trouble. Just for the member for Wannon: if you don't like the answer, I can appreciate that. It's not appropriate just to take a point of order if you don't like the answer. The Prime Minister has the call. Mr ALBANESE: I say this to the good people of Watson, Blaxland and McMahon: we will respect every one of you, regardless of who you are, regardless of your faith, regardless of your ethnicity. We won't vilify you, we won't attack you, we won't undermine you because we understand that strong people don't have to tell people how strong they are; bullies do.