Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs: can the minister confirm that ABC Tissues has been found to be in breach of immigration, industrial, workplace safety and taxation laws in its employment of temporary foreign workers? Can the minister confirm that her department investigated this company in August 2005 and found breaches under the Migration Act? In response to concerns I raised directly with her in June this year, didn’t the minister say that her department was investigating the company again? How is it possible that ABC Tissues were able to continue to exploit 457 visas and breach a raft of other laws after two investigations by the minister’s department in less than one year? Can the minister now release the department’s reports on its investigations into ABC Tissues and explain why in over a year the exploitation of workers on 457 visas by this company has not stopped?