Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 118—17 September 2015, p. 3146.

[2]        Senate Selection of Bills Committee, Report No. 12 of 2015, 17 September 2015, Appendix 1.

[3]        Senate Selection of Bills Committee, Report No. 12 of 2015, 17 September 2015, Appendix 2.

[4]        See: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/Visa_for_payments_Bill

[5]        Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 3.

[6]        John Azarias, Jenny Lambert, Professor Peter McDonald, Katie Malyon, Robust New Foundations. A Streamlined, Transparent and Responsive System for the 457 Programme: An Independent Review into Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme, September 2014, p. 6, http://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/reviews-and-inquiries/streamlined-responsive-457-programme.pdf (accessed 2 October 2015).

[7]        See: Recommendation 10.7, Robust New Foundations, p. 73.

[8]        Hon Peter Dutton MP, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 2015, p. 23.

[9]        House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 2015, p. 23.

[10]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 7–10.

[11]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 7.

[12]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 7–10.

[13]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 8.

[14]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 8.

[15]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 7–10.

[16]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 10 & 11.

[17]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 10.

[18]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 10–12.

[19]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 12.

[20]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 21–22.

[21]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 9 & 12.

[22]      Hon Peter Dutton MP, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 2015, p. 24. See also: Explanatory Memorandum, p. 27.

[23]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 10.

[24]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 20.

[25]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Alert Digest No. 11 of 2015, 14 August 2015, pp 20–25.

[26]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, Twenty-ninth report of the 44^th Parliament, 13 October 2015, p. 2.

Chapter 2 - Key issues

[1]        Hon Peter Dutton MP, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, House of Representatives Hansard, 16 September 2015, p. 23.

[2]        Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, p. 3.

[3]        ACTU, Submission 4, p. 6.

[4]        Ai Group, Submission 7, p. [1].

[5]        ACTU, Submission 4, p. 6.

[6]        Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, p. 3.

[7]        Law Institute of Victoria, Submission 9, p. 5. See also: Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia, Submission 11, p. 2.

[8]        ACTU, Submission 4, p. 3. See also: Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, p. 2; Law Institute Victoria, Submission 9, p. 3.

[9]        ACTU, Submission 4, p. 7.

[10]      FECCA, Submission 11, p. [1].

[11]      Law Institute of Victoria, Submission 9, p. 3. See for example, ABC Four Corners investigation 'Slaving Away' exposing exploitation and slave-like conditions on farms supplying Australian supermarkets; the case of a 457-visa holder trafficked to Australia and held in slave-like conditions in a restaurant for 16 months reported in the Sydney Morning Herald; and the recent Fairfax and Four Corners investigation revealing widescale abuse of workers by 7-Eleven franchisees.  

[12]      Ernst and Young, Submission 6, p. 4.

[13]      FECCA, Submission 11, p. [2].

[14]      Associate Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, Submission 2, p. 4. See also: Commonwealth of Australia, Visa Subclass 457 Integrity Review: Final Report, 2008, p. 69, https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Work/Subclass-457-Integrity-Review#d (accessed 13 October 2015).

[16]      Ernst and Young, Submission 6, p. 4.

[17]      Law Institute Victoria, Submission 9, p. 4. See also: Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia, Submission 11, p. 2.

[18]      See: ACTU, Submission 4, p. 3; The Law Society of South Australia, Submission 8, p. 1.

[19]      Associate Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, Submission 2, p. 5.

[20]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 8.

[21]      LIV, Submission 9, p. 5.

[22]      The Law Society of South Australia, Submission 8, p. 1.

[23]      Uniting Church in Australia, The Salvation Army, National Union of Workers and Harris Wake, Submission 5, p. 4.

[24]      Submission 5, p. 1.

[25]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 9.

[26]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 9.

[27]      Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, p. 3.

[28]      Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, p. 3.

[29]      Ernst and Young, Submission 6, p. 2.

[30]      Migration Institute of Australia, Submission 3, pp 3–4.

[31]      Ai Group, Submission 7, p. 1.

[32]      Ernst and Young, Submission 6, p. 3.

[33]      Ai Group, Submission 7, p. 1.

[34]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 6.

[35]      ACTU, Submission 4, p. 9.

[36]      ACTU, Submission 4, p. 9.

[37]      ACTU, Submission 4, p. 9.

[38]      Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Submission 10, p. 6.

[39]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 9 & 12.

[40]      Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, Submission 1, pp [1–2].

[41]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 11. See also, p. 12.

[42]      John Azarias, Jenny Lambert, Professor Peter McDonald, Katie Malyon, 'Robust New Foundations. A Streamlined, Transparent and Responsive System for the 457 Programme: An Independent Review into Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme', September 2014, p. 6, http://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/reviews-and-inquiries/streamlined-responsive-457-programme.pdf (accessed 2 October 2015).

[43]      Explanatory Memorandum, Attachment A, p. 32.

Dissenting report from the Australian Greens

[1]        John Azarias, Jenny Lambert, Professor Peter McDonald and Katie Malyon, Robust New Foundations: A Streamlines, Transparent and Responsive System for the 457 Programme: An Independent Review into Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme, September 2014, https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/reviews-and-inquiries/streamlined-responsive-457-programme.pdf (accessed 5 November 2015).

[2]        Robust New Foundations, Recommendation 10.7, p. 73.

[3]        For further discussion of this concern, see for example Ernest & Young, Submission 6, p. 4.

[4]        For further discussion of this concern, see, for example Uniting Church in Australia, The Salvation Army, National Union of Workers and Harris Wake, Submission 5, p. 4.

[5]        The Law Institute of Victoria, Submission 9, p. 6.

[6]        Robust New Foundations p 15, 1.28.