Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Normally I'd like a bit longer than a minute but I'll make a start on my speech on the Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2017. I'm just going to restate a couple of propositions which are important, because they underpin the principal, the foundation, as to why we believe labour market testing is required. If there is an Australian who can do the job, they should get the job and you should only have access to the temporary skilled migration system if there is no suitable Australian who can do the job.

The government is proposing through this bill, the substantive bill that the House has now read for a second time, to remove all of the specific requirements currently in the Migration Act for labour market testing and to come up with an instrument. We don't know what that instrument is. Maybe the minister here has it under the table. You could show us the instrument. You could tell us what's in it. Then we might be able to make an informed assessment about what the government actually proposes.

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