You may recall that when the legislative instrument was signed off by Senator Cash with the effect of cease and capping 16000 group 4 and 5 candidates; there was a reference to internal and external stakeholder consultations buried away in the explanatory statement.
I issued an FOI request seeking the following:
Details of "internal stakeholder consultation and "external" stakeholder consultation referred to in paragraph 6 of the"explanatory statement" underpinning Legislative Instrument IMMI 15/112.
I have just received a reply which in a round about way tells me that there were NO EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONS.
I must say that I am very surprised that the Assistant Minister would not have asked, before signing the legislative instrument...so who did you speak to?
Pinnochio is very upset.