Senator CASH (Western Australia—Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women) (14:25): I think all Australians know that the union and the Labor Party have run for many, many years now a concerted campaign—and a malicious one—against foreign workers. You can imagine then Australians' disbelief when it was revealed that a number of trade unions have sponsored 457 workers to the tune of at least 41. In fact Senator Lines— Honourable senators interjecting— Senator CASH: Colleagues! Colleagues! Colleagues, please: let's get this on the record, so Senator Lines can respond. Senator Lines's union, United Voice, currently sponsors no less than nine subclass 457 visa workers in their offices. Of course then we have the Maritime Union of Australia—who are consistently defended by Senator Sterle in this place—great haters of overseas labour, who have sponsored a number of 457 workers. But the hypocrisy and duplicity of Labor and the union movement does not end there. Who can forget Tony Sheldon of the TWU, who said that the use of 457 workers was a form of slavery? Senator Conroy, Senator Sterle and Senator Gallacher: you will be very pleased to know that the TWU has also sponsored a number of 457 workers despite the fact that this is a form of slavery. Of course, not to leave out others: the Australian Workers' Union, the Finance Sector Union and the National Tertiary Education Union have all sponsored 457 workers in the past five years—hypocrisy at its very best.