Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Energy and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to speak on the Migration Legislation Amendment (Worker Protection) Bill 2008. I rise to speak on this bill today because the making of changes to Australia’s popular non-citizen temporary workers scheme is something that I have a deep interest in. As the former chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration I have a strong interest in this field, and I have some personal experience with temporary working visas. While I was chair of the committee, I had declared an interest: my wife owns a bakery, and we employ temporary workers on the 457 visa scheme. We are very lucky that one of them is actually a baker from the Hanoi Hilton, and a magnificent baker he is. He has added very much to our business, and we are very proud of him.

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