Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Well, this is the second time you've said that it depends on their individual circumstances. It doesn't depend on that individual's circumstances; it depends on the terms of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. And the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement means that any labour market testing would be redundant in the context of a Chinese company using a subsidiary to build the inland rail, or of a Chinese company or subsidiary building an extension to a mine or installing equipment, because the agreement says 'installers and servicers of China'. Subclause 12 says:

Entry and temporary stay shall be granted to installers and servicers of China for a period of up to three months.

So if one of Gina Rinehart's companies engages a company from China to install mining equipment, then there would be no labour market testing. Those installers could come in for a period of three months to install or service the machinery and equipment without any labour market testing. Is that correct?