Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

Statistics tell a very interesting story because, under the Abbott government, the number of primary subclass 457 visa holders in Australia as at 31 July 2015 was 101,970. That in fact represents a decrease of 7.5 per cent since the election of the Abbott government.

Senator Cameron will be very interested to know, because I am sure he would defend this, that under his government the number of 457 visa holders grew from 60,000 primary visa holders at the beginning of 2010 to approximately 110,000 in September 2013 when Labor lost office. So the next time anyone on the other side comes into this place and says, 'There is an increase in foreign workers under this government', you are wrong!