Australia is creating an underclass of exploited farm workers, unable to speak up
- Written by Abul Rizvi, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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.
They also worried about the infiltration of criminal...