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

There are some further matters that are being looked at in relation to that particular meatworks, but on any occasion where we find that someone is not doing the right thing and I am subsequently asked about it, I will make clear what the answer is. I do not think that should be hidden from anybody. We do not want this visa to be misused; we want the visa to continue.

But, when members opposite get up and raise allegations, I would welcome them also saying, ‘Gee, that was incorrect’—for example, in relation to the allegation that Indonesians were being paid $20 to $40 a day to dig ditches in my state of South Australia, when in fact $60 a day was the bonus payment and they were on salaries of over $50,000 a year. And we ask ourselves why the Advertiser digitised out the face of one of the people in the media. I believe the Labor Party knows the answer to that, because they know who was in the photograph. They know who gave the Advertiser the incorrect information, and they do not want anyone else to know who it was. (Time expired)