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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Temporary Visa Holders

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:42): Supplementary question arising from the original answer: what modelling has the minister undertaken to estimate the impacts on South Australian trade and investment from fewer temporary workers coming to South Australia and the current temporary workers losing their jobs?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade and Investment) (14:43): I thank the honourable member for her supplementary. There's been a little bit of work done. Again, there is a crossover of a number of portfolios. The Hon. Tim Whetstone, Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, has been doing some work in relation to temporary visa holders and fruit picking and the harvest which is about to commence in the Riverland. I think some Pacific Islanders have been brought in and are self-isolating up there at present.

We understand that there is a significant requirement for short-term visa holders, or temporary visa holders, to come and help with the horticultural harvest. There's also other areas where we have workers that come in for agriculture and fisheries; they are short-term jobs, they are not long-term jobs. So the impact of people not coming can be quite significant. I don't have the figures in front of me today, but I will take that on notice and bring back some details, for the honourable member, of the modelling—if we have any modelling—that we will make available to her.

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