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

Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps he is known for that—sorry, trying to be nice. But Senator Campbell forgets to add what else I said yesterday, and that was that if Senator Sterle had any knowledge or facts to indicate that anybody was being misused—as the government thinks they would be—under this visa and treated improperly he should give us the information. In fact I went further and said that I would wait for his call after question time. It was a lonely wait by the phone.

I repeat what I said yesterday: the immigration department does believe that the combination of setting the salary, which is gazetted, the agreement that a sponsor has to enter into and the application of Australian industrial law, which has as a normal working week 38 hours, means that what I said yesterday is right. It is a combination of laws and the agreement that come to that conclusion. But, in order to ensure that that is beyond doubt, the regulations, which went to Executive Council yesterday—