House debates Questions without Notice
Skilled Migration
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations
2:52 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of yet more official complaints which have been lodged regarding the alleged misuse of the government’s 457 guest worker visas, this time in relation to the Kilcoy meatworks in Queensland? Can the Prime Minister confirm that the department of immigration has been requested to investigate whether at least 25 of the 40 Filipino workers on 457 visas at this plant—
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations
Can the Prime Minister confirm that the department of immigration has been requested to investigate whether at least 25 of the 40 Filipino workers on 457 visas at this plant are actually employed in unskilled labouring jobs? Didn’t Kilcoy apply for visas for these workers, stating that they would be employed as slaughtermen?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
Mr Speaker, in reply to the member for Oxley, I do not have direct knowledge of that. I will find out and I will write to him with what information I can get.