child migrants

457 Visa holders - ESL support for children

Date: 
12/10/2010

Extract from Hansard


2747. Hon Alison Xamon to the Minister for Energy representing the Minister for Education


I refer to the Budget estimates hearings in June in which it was stated that, forward estimates for ESL Support for Children of 457 Visa holders, were dependent upon a business case being made to Treasury, and that this would be resolved within two to three months of the hearing. I ask —

Employment of Child Migrants (QON 1234)

Date: 
24/09/2009

I refer to the formal service agreements signed by employers of child migrants from at least the 1920’s. The service agreements usually indicated the children would be paid a wage, half in cash and half banked by Child Welfare to be held in trust until their 21st birthday, and I ask -

(1) Were any formal service agreements signed by non-Government institutions (for example, Bindoon or Castledare) as employers of child migrants?

(2) If yes to (1), please advise, -

(a) in what years the agreements were made;

(b) which institutions the agreements covered; and