Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald regarding ABC Tissues, where foreign temporary workers do not speak enough English to read safety signs and are not trained to perform basic tasks. Is the Prime Minister aware that an Australian worker on the site remarked:

We’d see people on the roof, 20 metres in the air, and you couldn’t even yell at them to get ... down.

Is the Prime Minister also aware that an unskilled foreign worker tried to fit a power tool plug into a socket by stripping the cord and inserting naked wires straight into the socket? Does the Prime Minister think these are acceptable work practices and why has he allowed foreign workers with little or no English to do these jobs at all?

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