Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I refer Senator Xenophon to the comprehensive answer I have given. Perhaps I can further advise that discussions are already taking place about a regime of voluntary reporting to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Jetstar has already advised the department that since February it has placed limitations on the number of contiguous sectors on which cabin crew can work and the numbers of hours that they can work on tagged flights. It is also open to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to consider regulatory changes as appropriate. Any such consideration would need to carefully balance domestic considerations against international commitments and reciprocity.

I reiterate that the special purpose visa provisions were not designed to allow foreign airline crew to perform identifiably separate tasks from their international airline crew work in Australia because such use would run counter to the intended purpose of those SPV arrangements.