Our research found Australia’s visa system continues to harm migrants once they’ve experienced exploitation. Survivors described being left destitute and desperate without access to services.
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Last year, the workplace cop fined employers just $4 million for underpaying workers. The Tax Office collected $3 billion in penalties from people who didn’t pay their tax.
The recent increase in net-overseas migration has been due to policies that enabled people to remain in Australia rather than policies enabling more people to arrive.
The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
Although it has been extended by two more weeks, the decision to end the visa program is disappointing given heavy fighting continues and the humanitarian crisis worsens.
Exploitation flourishes because regulators do not routinely detect or punish labour law noncompliance.
Defining skill shortage by lists of occupations is inflexible for a rapidly changing labour market. Australia needs a different approach to organise its temporary skilled migration programs.
We protect the savings of non-resident people in Australia but we leave them without any benefits if they lose their job here.
The legislation before parliament discriminates against employers who take on temporary migrants, impoverishes Australian residents and will hold back the fight against coronavirus.
More than one-in-16 people in New Zealand is a migrant without residence status. For everyone’s sake, to contain COVID-19 we need to ensure those 300,00 people can access health and social services.
We found refugees with insecure visas had poorer mental health than refugees with secure visas. But social interaction with the wider community seems to help.
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor & Director, Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Director of the SITADHub (Social Impact Technologies and Democracy Research Hub) in the School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Deputy Program Director (Migration), Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Chair, Academic Board; Dean International, Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of International Health, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Geography, Director of the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato
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Senior Research Officer, Curtin University
