at least angmoh employers know how to f**k fake FTs nicely. Apply 459 for fake FTs to be program and project admin workers but put them as security guards instead.
What did the PAP and GLCs do? Put sinkie as security guards and put fake FTs in program and admin work? See in red.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed suggestions her 457 visa stance is xenophobic and a move to the far right, saying she was simply putting Australian jobs first.
Following her comments on Sunday that foreign workers should not be put at the front of the jobs queue at the expense of Australian workers, Ms Gillard has come under fire from the Coalition and the Greens.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott accused the Prime Minister of ''demonising'' foreign workers, while Greens leader Christine Milne said Ms Gillard was ''dog whistling''.
On Wednesday, Ms Gillard told reporters in Sydney that the 457 debate was a ''very simple [and] very important issue''.
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''I believe in putting Australian jobs first. Others can use whatever label they choose to for that,'' she said.
Labor announced a crackdown on 457s last week.
On Wednesday in a speech in Melbourne, Multicultural Affairs Minister Kate Lundy said the success of Australia's skilled migration programs was reliant on business doing the ''right thing'', which was why the government was moving to close loopholes.
Senator Lundy said that under the existing system, the government was unable to move against companies, such as one in Parramatta that has brought in temporary workers described as program and project administrators and put them to work as security guards.
''These are examples of why we need to tighten guidelines,'' she said.
''Until we do, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship can't take actions against these employers even when it suspects the jobs described have been created solely to bring a person into the country for a completely unrelated purpose.''
Treasurer Wayne Swan also used anecdotal evidence to support the government's argument that the 457 visa system is being rorted to exclude well-qualified Australians.
''Well, I can give you my own personal evidence of this,'' Mr Swan said, ''I've frequently been approached by people who I know that are quite well qualified, hard working Australians who are looking to get jobs in certain sectors and find it hard to actually get there.
''My summation of this is that there is a bit of a problem in parts of the mining sector where Australians are not necessarily getting a look in first as they should.''
Mr Swan suggested 457 visas were being abused in other sectors beyond mining.
As the government continued to press its 457 case, a federal government adviser on skilled migration said it was not true that foreign workers were being put at the front of the queue at the expense of Australian workers.
ANU demographer Professor Peter McDonald, who is a member of the federal government's Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration, told ABC Radio on Wednesday that while he agreed with Labor's recently announced crackdown to improve the integrity of 457s, he did not support its characterisation of the problem.
Professor McDonald said the rate of rorting in the 457 visa class was ''anybody's guess'', but he estimated that there were about 2 or 3 per cent of employers who were ''behaving badly'' by getting around the requirements of the system.
''I don't approve of some the statements coming from the government side, which are way too general,'' he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ow-heats-up-20130306-2fknp.html#ixzz2MkXKv8iS
What did the PAP and GLCs do? Put sinkie as security guards and put fake FTs in program and admin work? See in red.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed suggestions her 457 visa stance is xenophobic and a move to the far right, saying she was simply putting Australian jobs first.
Following her comments on Sunday that foreign workers should not be put at the front of the jobs queue at the expense of Australian workers, Ms Gillard has come under fire from the Coalition and the Greens.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott accused the Prime Minister of ''demonising'' foreign workers, while Greens leader Christine Milne said Ms Gillard was ''dog whistling''.
On Wednesday, Ms Gillard told reporters in Sydney that the 457 debate was a ''very simple [and] very important issue''.
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''I believe in putting Australian jobs first. Others can use whatever label they choose to for that,'' she said.
Labor announced a crackdown on 457s last week.
On Wednesday in a speech in Melbourne, Multicultural Affairs Minister Kate Lundy said the success of Australia's skilled migration programs was reliant on business doing the ''right thing'', which was why the government was moving to close loopholes.
Senator Lundy said that under the existing system, the government was unable to move against companies, such as one in Parramatta that has brought in temporary workers described as program and project administrators and put them to work as security guards.
''These are examples of why we need to tighten guidelines,'' she said.
''Until we do, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship can't take actions against these employers even when it suspects the jobs described have been created solely to bring a person into the country for a completely unrelated purpose.''
Treasurer Wayne Swan also used anecdotal evidence to support the government's argument that the 457 visa system is being rorted to exclude well-qualified Australians.
''Well, I can give you my own personal evidence of this,'' Mr Swan said, ''I've frequently been approached by people who I know that are quite well qualified, hard working Australians who are looking to get jobs in certain sectors and find it hard to actually get there.
''My summation of this is that there is a bit of a problem in parts of the mining sector where Australians are not necessarily getting a look in first as they should.''
Mr Swan suggested 457 visas were being abused in other sectors beyond mining.
As the government continued to press its 457 case, a federal government adviser on skilled migration said it was not true that foreign workers were being put at the front of the queue at the expense of Australian workers.
ANU demographer Professor Peter McDonald, who is a member of the federal government's Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration, told ABC Radio on Wednesday that while he agreed with Labor's recently announced crackdown to improve the integrity of 457s, he did not support its characterisation of the problem.
Professor McDonald said the rate of rorting in the 457 visa class was ''anybody's guess'', but he estimated that there were about 2 or 3 per cent of employers who were ''behaving badly'' by getting around the requirements of the system.
''I don't approve of some the statements coming from the government side, which are way too general,'' he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ow-heats-up-20130306-2fknp.html#ixzz2MkXKv8iS
