Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I refer to the fact that skilled migrants on 457 visas who come to Australia are able to obtain a permanent skilled visa under the employer sponsored program and have the lowest rate of unemployment of all migrant groups. Given this outcome, why are the government targeting migrants who get jobs and pay taxes, rather than reversing their border protection policy failures that have allowed tens of thousands of people to arrive illegally on boats and claim welfare?