Shadow Minister,

You say that there is very little rorting associated with 457 visas, but there is only about one inspector to every 2500 employers. How can you be sure that some of them, especially the smaller companies, are not routinely circumventing legal requirements, such as on employing Australians first, as has been happening in the US? See

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/06/18/347849/-How-To-Not-Hire-An-American-MUST-SEE-VIDEO

The high immigration and 457 visas that you advocate are not making us any richer on average. See the link in my previous post on GDP per capita.

You are probably right about Julia Gillard wanting to distract people from the asylum seeker issue.

Divergence,

The number of inspectors is an issue especially since Labor drastically cut the funding to this department. However, considering that the vast majority of employers don't employ 457 visa workers, and the inspectors' function is to to review every instance but to perform random audits and suspicious activity.

The reported non compliance with the regulations as reported from these audits is less than 2%, which I believe compares favourably with compliance to similar legislation.

This sums up the issue very succinctly.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillards-foreign-worker-attack-hits-home-but-doesnt-help-her-20130318-2gb9m.html

The pattern of how these visas are being actually used is quite suspicious, as pointed out by Tim Colebach.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-books-are-being-cooked-on-457-visas-20130318-2gb0s.html#ixzz2NxG0NpgG

Hanson and her followers are just a bunch of neo-Nazis?
Mr Opinion,
better check again because the Nazis were Sozialists. I don't think Hanson is one.

Dear individual,

No, they were National Socialists - not socialists. The two are quite different.

Mr Opinion,
National, Federal no difference at all.