Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated earlier, the health sector is a very big user of this system, but I did not get the opportunity to point out that the education sector is also a very big user of this system. The Australian National University, the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales all use it. There have been, in fact, 296 nominations for lecturers. We could have a debate about whether the Labor Party think they are unskilled—at an average salary of $58,000—if that is the proposition you want to put, but I would not put that proposition. Or we could have a debate about the mining sector, with an average salary of $89,000.

Who was the biggest user in the last year of this visa? The New South Wales Labor government. Let’s send a compliance team and see if they are rorting the system. Let’s see if the New South Wales government are using this to undermine Australian working conditions. We could go to the Rail Corporation, the Wildlife Information and Rescue Service, the Cancer Institute and the Rural Doctors Network. We could go to every state government and say to them, ‘Do you really want to use this visa, because your federal opposition just do not understand?’ (Time expired)