Submission to the Joint Standing Committee Inquiry – Migration, Pathway to Nation Building
The Human Rights Law Centre, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Migrant Workers Centre are calling for Australia’s migration laws to centre the rights of people over punitive politics and economic profit in a joint submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration.
With the Albanese Government poised to act on its ‘once in a generation’ migration review, we are calling for:
An ending to ‘permanently temporary’ visa status, by abolishing dead-end skilled visa pathways and walking back the visa cancellation framework;
The abolition of ‘Fast Track’ processing and permanent pathways for people subject to it;
Evacuation of people seeking asylum still held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea to Australia and permanent resettlement pathways for all those subjected to offshore detention;
Equal protections for migrant workers to take action on exploitation;
An end to deliberate family separation in migration and asylum laws.