Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

These instructions are associated with projects of over $150 million. The department of immigration, the authority that you used for the EMAs, wrote this. What does it say? About IFAs, it says:

Evidence of your domestic recruitment efforts should include details, for each requested occupation, of advertising undertaken within the past six months, including the period the job was advertised; the number of applicants who were hired; and reasons why other applicants were unsuccessful; or provide other compelling evidence of why no suitable Australian workers are available.

That looks to me like labour market testing.

A government member: It is labour market testing.

That is labour market testing. If it looks like it, if it says what it is, it is it. That is mandatory. In the EMAs, it was not mandatory.

Mr Conroy interjecting—

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