Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I thank Senator Evans for pointing that out. My question is, indeed, to Senator Lundy. I refer the minister to recent reports that the Indian-based transnational energy and mining company, the Adani Group, has brought a foreign workforce to Australia on incorrect short-stay visas with restricted work rights with the full knowledge of Australian immigration officials. The company was later permitted by the immigration department to transfer this workforce onto the correct 457 work visas without them having to leave the country, as they would under any other circumstance. I ask the minister: when did any official from the department of immigration, or indeed the minister's office, first become aware of the arrival of Adani's foreign workers on incorrect visas?