Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Integration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

If we decided to not make laws based on evidence being difficult to prove, this parliament would have much less work to do. The minister would know full well that this exact principle I am referring to is the cornerstone behind the use of extraterritorial power in relation to parliament making it unlawful in Australia for people to be involved in child sex crimes overseas. When there is the will to actually look, no matter how difficult the evidence may be to gather, the capacity is there to do it. My question to the minister is: is it an abuse of the 457 visa for someone to be paid $42,000 to perform work, when everybody in that same region of Australia is being paid $80,000?

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