David Seymour
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People love to get on their high horse.
I had somebody at one of my street corner meetings on the Epsom electorate yesterday giving me a lecture on international law.
I think the reality is that international law always evolves, and I suspect that while you shouldn't unilaterally start wars like this, if you spend 40 years sponsoring terrorists, terrorising your neighbourhoods, trying to create nuclear weapons so you can wipe a whole country off the map,
and then machine gunning tens of thousands of your own people, then perhaps the protections of international law are not entirely available to you.
Yeah, a much bigger scandal would be as if our Prime Minister wasn't asking about all the options.
Well, as a very experienced old campaigner said to me not so long ago, a leopard never changes their spots.
And that's probably a useful thing for a lot of people to remember.
Well, I certainly hope not because people are under real pressure.
If you think about tradies that have fixed price contracts and all of their supplies going up, they're not up for a whole lot of politicians talking about themselves and fighting each other over emails.
And I suspect that just about nobody is.
So I certainly hope not.
My view, speaking for a moment as the Act, is that we're here to keep this government and make it better, by which I mean saving more money and cutting more red tape.
but others will choose how they act as well.
Well, you can talk about
having had a decline, maybe that's fair, maybe it's not, but we are still a very desirable destination.
We should not sell ourselves short.
If I just say one thing, I heard the feds on earlier saying that people would have to renew their visas every year.
We're not saying that.
If you get a visa for three years, you get it for three years, but the categories of visas that are issuable, those should be reviewed every year.
Because otherwise, things just get away on you, and suddenly you've had 2,500 fast food workers come in as skilled migrants, but only 30 biomedical engineers.