House debates
Monday, 27 February 2017
Questions without Notice
Migration
3:05 pm
Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source
I withdraw, Mr Speaker. The point about this Leader of the Opposition is: you cannot look at his words; you need to have a look at his actions. What happened was, when he was the employment minister in the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, the 457 visas ballooned during his period of leadership. You need to look at what he is saying in this question time and in the public at the moment in relation to penalty rates. It is interesting to note that in relation to the Clean Event circumstance, where he was in the AWU at the time, he presided over an arrangement where casual cleaning workers were paid $18.14 and hour when under the award—
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