Immigrant death toll is hushed up
Matthew Moore; 19/4/08
In June last year, the then minister for immigration, Kevin Andrews, confirmed a report from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union that three foreign nationals on 457 skilled worker visas had died in work-related accidents in four months. He said then 17 other foreigners employed on the same visas had died in Australia over the five previous years, but that none of those deaths were work-related. The revelation that 17 people brought to Australia to work, all of whom were in good physical condition, had died in circumstances unrelated to their work sounded unlikely, so the Herald lodged a freedom-of-information request in July.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/immigrant-death-toll-is-hushed-up/2008/04/18/1208025473777.html