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

Senator Lundy, who has been a bystander and a parasitic commentator in this matter, said that without the involvement of the union and of federal Labor in parliament, these vulnerable workers—these poor Filipino people who could not do this themselves—would have remained unrepresented, underpaid and exploited. That is not true. The government began investigating this matter because the visa holders raised it with the government—not because the Labor Party raised it; not because the union movement raised it; but because the workers raised it. Seeing a good story, Senator Lundy, in a parasitic fashion, jumped on. She wanted her moment in the sun.