The "457 visa" allows businesses facing skills shortages to employ labour from overseas, but has been slammed by unions amid claims that bosses were abusing it and local workers were missing out. "The 457 visa is abolished. Australian jobs, Australian values." But the Labor opposition, which has long called for reforms to the 457 visa scheme to protect local workers, said the changes did not go far enough. There were 95,758 holders of the 457 visas in Australia as of the end of September, according to immigration data, less than one percent of the workforce.

Source: Daily Nation April 19, 2017 09:09 UTC