When he was immigration minister, Peter Dutton raised a lot of hackles with this comment on radio, suggesting asylum seekers coming to Australia were economic migrants, not genuine refugees.
Mr Dutton has been re-elected to his hotly contested seat of Dickson in Queensland with what many are describing as an unexpected turn-round in the fortunes of the Liberal National Coalition, who were widely tipped to lose the Federal Election.
His hard line approach to immigration has seen him regularly clash with refugee advocates over conditions on Nauru and Manus Island and his refusal to allow asylum seekers access to medical care on the mainland.
Peter Doukas from the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia says his impression is that there has been a change in approach and he hopes the Government will seize a new opportunity.
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