Albanese government’s plan to strip asylum seekers of work rights will fuel exploitation
In August, the ABC revealed the Albanese Government was considering stripping work rights from people seeking asylum as they move through lengthy appeals processes, to ‘encourage them to leave the country’ once their applications are rejected by the Department of Home Affairs. But this is a tried-and-failed policy that won’t achieve its objective and will increase the already rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Australia.
