Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Apart from explaining that a company can have an ultimate foreign owner and actually employ Australians, one of the other things about the construction industry that people may not appreciate—or at the least the member asking me the question may not appreciate; I suspect everybody on this side of the House does, and I reckon the Independents are right onto this as well—is that in the construction industry it is common to engage a head contractor who then contracts down the chain to subcontractors—

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