Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Because I was asked if I was aware of the allegations raised that this visa was being misused. One of the allegations related to Halliburton, and the Australian Workers Union claimed that people were brought here from Indonesia to dig ditches and were paid $40 a day. The Advertiser, on the strength of what Labor told them, said ‘Slave labour for $40 a day: imported workers treated poorly’. The record was corrected by Halliburton on the same day. These workers were not digging ditches but were employed to supervise coiled gas tubing operations in oilfields, a very important industry to Australia.