It’s not surprising that the former immigration minister, who also used to throw refugee children in detention, would stoop to victim blaming.
How shameful that people who come from positions of power and privilege are suggesting that Priya and Nades somehow brought this nightmare on themselves that the reason their children are in detention is because they dared to have them at all?
Blaming refugees and attacking basic human rights, like the right to have children, while they are forced to wait years to hear the outcome of citizenship applications or the right to just apply for citizenship, highlights the cruel nature of temporary visas and the terrible impact they have on the refugees’ lives.
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Farm workers in Australia are exposed to widespread wage theft and exploitation, a survey shows.
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A Taiwanese foreign worker says she was exposed to such horrific rates of underpayment on an Australian farm she was forced to eat from public rubbish bins just to survive.
Kate Hsu said she was paid just $4 an hour picking oranges on a South Australian farm as the disturbing rates of wage theft and exploitation were revealed in a new report.
The study found an alarming majority of fruit and vegetable pickers in Australia were victims of wage theft, with nearly 80 per cent of 1300 horticulture industry workers reporting experiences of underpayment.
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