Senate debates
Thursday, 10 August 2006
Questions without Notice
Migrant Workers
2:18 pm
Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
What has happened is that, because we had some Filipino workers who did have the courage to go and dob in employers who were doing the wrong thing, a further audit has been done. And what have we found? In the restaurant and catering trade—guess what? Australian workers are being underpaid. What did the union movement do about that? Why, when workers in restaurants in Canberra were being underpaid, did Senator Lundy not raise the issue of Australian workers?
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