Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have a supplementary question, Mr President. Can the minister confirm that, instead of tightening up the use of temporary foreign workers in the meat industry, the government is considering expanding the occupations that can be filled by those workers? Won’t this mean that lesser skilled jobs will be filled by those on 457 visas? Doesn’t this show that under this government the program has less to do with plugging critical skills shortages but more to do with opening up sources of cheap labour?