Dr THEOPHANOUS (1:56 PM) —I want to begin by thanking all the members of parliament, parliamentary staff and others who have sent greetings to me and my wife, Kathryn, on the birth of our little girl, Margaret Persephone Theophanous. She was born on 7 May at 11.18 p.m., and we are obviously very grateful and very thrilled about her arrival. I will be writing to people individually to send them our greetings.

I want to refer to two matters that have occurred in my absence relating to issues that have concerned me in my parliamentary work. Firstly, I want to express concern about the developments that have occurred in relation to the three-year visa that this parliament adopted late last year. In the last few weeks the premiers of Queensland and South Australia have expressed their grave concerns about what is happening to the people who are granted refugee status under this new three-year visa and who have to fend for themselves in the community. The circumstances of these people are pretty drastic; they will be placing enormous pressure on social resources. Once again I ask the government and this parliament to rethink the situation of those people. (Time expired)