QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:34): It was Ms Vivienne Thom who did the report. I apologise for mixing up the two reports, which were certified at the same time. I indicate that the way in which the locally engaged employee program works is that those persons are then considered under Australia's wider humanitarian program and have a certain status as having been certified as an LEE under that program, more than 40 per cent of total offshore humanitarian program visa grants over the last four years have been to Afghan nationals.

We've in fact granted more visas under that program to Afghan nationals than to any other national nationality. Five years on from the fall of Kabul, I say clearly that our thoughts are with the people of Afghanistan as well as the Afghan community here in Australia. The PRESIDENT: Senator Pocock, second supplementary?