OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has likened Julia Gillard to Pauline Hanson, the anti-immigrant founder of One Nation.
Mr Abbott on Thursday told parliament the prime minister of Australia should be a leader for all Australians.
But he said Ms Gillard would use class, gender, and now country of birth, to score political points.
Speaking in the increasingly rancorous debate on Labor's plan to tighten up 457 visas for temporary foreign workers, Mr Abbott referred to a former member of parliament who set out to divide Australia about 15 years ago.
"We saw a member of this parliament set out to make perfectly decent Australians feel like strangers in their own country," he said.
Mr Abbott said he never thought he would see the day when it was not just be an independent member of parliament but the prime minister setting out to deliberately divide Australian from Australian to serve a political purpose.
"It is an embarrassment," he said.
In her first speech to parliament in 1998, Ms Hanson, a disendorsed Liberal candidate, warned that Australia risked being swamped with Asian immigrants.
The government claims there has been widespread rorting of the 457 visa scheme.
Its legislation will require employers to conduct market testing and only hire foreign workers if no Australian is available.
Mr Abbott said the government should be tackling the real problem of illegal boat arrivals.
"Instead they have decided to raise a false problem," he said.
"They can't get tough on illegal arrivals by boat, so they have decided to get tough on legal arrivals by plane."
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