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Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up

  • Written by Abul Rizvi, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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As a senior official in Australia’s Immigration Department in the late 1990s, I frequently met counterparts in Europe and North America who were exasperated by their inability to make headway against the exploitation and abuse of hundreds of thousands of migrant farm workers.

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