Yes, it's a joke Gus.

I can remember when 457 visas were only available to the chief executives of local subsidiaries of foreign companies, management employees with unique & essential knowledge of the parent company or employees with specialist technical skills. In all instances, the companies concerned were required to give undertakings that, in return for being granted such visas, training would be provided to local employees, such that the need for 457 visas to be granted would disappear.

Of course, little johnnie & his gang have corrupted all that, just like everything-else they touch. They've outsourced the function to immigration "agents" who now "market" 457 visas to anyone who wants one, whilst Veranda Vanstone concentrates her energies on deporting awstraylen citizens who suffer from the wrong "appearance".

Recently I met a student who was working for the awstraylen subsidiary of the world's biggest whitegoods manufacturer (Chinese) .... no problem with his 457 or its regular extension; no specialised skills; no english language capability; had a high-falutin' title but was actually being paid less than Missy at McDonalds down the road & he only got the gig because the MD of the company was a pal of his father in China.

Meanwhile, Electrolux has just announced it will close its Adelaide manufacturing facility because its costs make it uncompetitive. Perhaps those now unemployed awstraylens in Adelaide will be able to obtain the equivalent of a Chinese 457 visa & go work in China??