Glenn Lazarus (Queensland, Palmer United Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. I note that the Queensland Nurses' Union estimate that this year only around 600 of the 2,500 nursing graduates will be successful in gaining employment and many of these will be employed in temporary and part-time positions. Can the senator explain why the federal government continues to support the importation of overseas nurses and midwives on 457 working visas while Queensland has the highest level of new graduate unemployment and underemployment in the nursing and midwifery sector?