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Dwelling Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil admits the nation’s migration system is damaged and never delivering, forward of a long-awaited evaluation.
Ms O’Neil stated a report into Australia’s migration and visa system, commissioned late final yr, can be launched earlier than the federal funds is handed down in Might.
The evaluation, led by former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, was instituted following giant backlogs of visa processing and claims of migrant employee exploitation.
“It does present that there are features of our migration system that are damaged in basic methods,” Ms O’Neil advised ABC Radio on Tuesday.
“It’s a system that’s unstrategic, it is advanced, it is costly, it is gradual, it is not delivering for Australian residents or companies or the migrants who’re coming right here below it.”
A separate report carried out by former Victoria Police commissioner Christine Nixon into exploitation within the immigration system can even be addressed earlier than the funds.
Ms O’Neil stated the issue of migrant exploitation was greater than anticipated.
“The dimensions is wider than I believed it was going to be, however I feel the reporting that was executed demonstrates that this downside is critical for the nation, and it actually mandates the federal government taking motion,” she stated.
“Probably the most widespread exploitation we see within the system is within the exploitation of migrant employees.
“It is an issue in migration programs everywhere in the world, however I’d say we’re in a very acute scenario right here.”
Ms O’Neil stated it was crucial for the federal government to behave on the problem, following stories of human trafficking and sexual slavery.
– AAP
