Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for your supplementary question. In respect of the first part of it, I am advised that if foreign crews are operating on a domestic leg of an international flight then a special purpose visa would in fact be the appropriate thing they would need to have. As I mentioned earlier, it is a longstanding provision of Australian migration legislation to have facilitative visas and clearance arrangements for international airline crew. International airline crew arriving in Australia are taken when they land to hold special purpose visas by operation of law. They are, of course, registered and processed through the DIAC system with the crew travel authority, which requires that these special purpose visa crew arrangements are only those suitable for international airlines bringing crew into Australia.

In relation to the second part of your question, I will seek further information from Minister Bowen about that. (Time expired)