Some context... (Score 1)

From the banter in the House of Representatives about this topic, the focus is wholly on companies that wrought the system by applying to bring labour in from overseas under the guises of skilled labour shortage, and then assigning them tasks better suited to janitors or clerics. I.E. Companies have been purposefully advertising for doctors and psychiatrists, they hire whoever they like, if they don't have proper qualifications they get paid less, they are stringed up because on the whim of the company they get deported, so some aren't making minimum wage, and then are required to clean toilets and the like. The work of a janitor is hard skilled labour, and therefore there is no shortage. Companies are abusing this in multiple sectors to bring in cheap labour of which Australia has no labour shortage in. Take IT workers for example, maybe they get here and are then assigned telemarketing jobs or help desk jobs, when the advertisements say Network Administrator or Software Engineer. Geeze for a site touted as "News for Nerds" some of you guys really don't try to educate yourselves before jumping into the conversation and being less than helpful.