Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

I ask whether the Acting Prime Minister is aware of statements by officials of Perth construction company Hanssen Industries in relation to Australian workers:

The more you pay them the less they work.

And in relation to foreign workers:

We found that by using migrant labour ... they’d just follow it and do it the way we wanted.

I am not saying they are at a lower level of intelligence ... it just seemed that they can do one task and not want to do anything different until they’re told to do something different.

Does the Acting Prime Minister endorse this conduct available under the government’s so-called ‘skilled’ migration program? If not, will he now fix it?

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