Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

It is very clear that the Turnbull government is the greatest friend the Australian worker has ever had. There is no question at all. You only need to look at the dodgy 457 visa that Labor presided over. I notice this week that the Leader of the Opposition is out there pretending he is the best friend of the worker, but it was not the case when he was the employment minister in the grand, glorious days of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd period in this parliament. As it turned out, the Leader of the Opposition, whilst he is pretending today to be the friend of the worker, presided over a dodgy 457 visa program which saw 40,000 additional foreign workers coming into our country to go into jobs that should have been taken by Australian workers.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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