Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He says: 'If the China FTA is ratified any temporary workers will come to Australia under the existing 457 scheme. This scheme allows employers to access overseas workers where a genuine skills shortage exists. The Worker Protection Act 2008 also means that 457 visa holders are entitled to receive pay and conditions at least as good as Australian workers who are doing the same at the same workplace.' Exactly the same conditions as operated under members opposite, exactly the same conditions that members opposite put on the one or two rather small free trade agreements that they concluded, apply to this agreement.

We have got a lot of hyperventilating from members opposite. This is the 'Project Agreement Form, Information for Employers Requesting a Project Labour Agreement, May 2015'. Let me read it for the shadow minister for foreign affairs, who does not do her homework—she wants a terrorist picnic in Syria and she thinks Africa is a country! Let me read it very slowly so the member for Sydney can hear it.

Mr Bowen interjecting—

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