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

I will make a couple of points. An average salary of $60,000 indicates that there are certainly many people with salaries above that, which is hardly what you would regard as a cheap source of labour. The largest user of this visa is the New South Wales department of health—hardly known to be a right-wing cabal of people seeking to undermine Australian workers. It is used by Saint Vincent de Paul, Red Cross and the universities. Senator, I am afraid that you and I come to this from a completely different perspective.