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

It is not always the case that people are interviewed in front of their employers. In fact, I might go back to the T&R case. I indicated that the report on that case had been held over, because I believed that, while one sentence could be true, it still might not give them a clean bill of health. I had been told there had been an issue in relation to housing, and I have subsequently been given some details of that. I am glad that my suspicious mind did in fact ask for the report to be held over, because I will have a further look at the housing issue given what I have now seen. The reason I say that is in part related to Senator Ludwig’s question, because some of the things that some workers said were not said in the presence of their employer. So it is not always true that it happens that way. We can all take one extreme example and extrapolate it out to be the norm. I can assure you, Senator, that if you have examples of people being misused, let us know and we will investigate. (Time expired)