I`m not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government`s state of mind at the time I made that.
I thank all of those who weren`t born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
It`s too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
