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

The issue which was just described by the minister surely is precisely an example of debt bondage. The difficulties internationally go to the monitoring of and enforcement against debt bondage. If what the minister just described is legally permissible under the 457 visa program—perhaps because of extraterritorial difficulties, but notwithstanding those—doesn’t that go directly to the debt bondage concerns of possible abuse of the program contained within the US report?

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