The Turnbull Government clearly has no interest in managing Australia’s borders, nor reining-in Australia’s brake-neck population growth, with the Department of Immigration set to hand over administration of Australia’s visa system to private operators. From The Canberra Times:
Private operators would run large parts of Australia’s visa system and charge migrants under an Immigration Department plan to avoid cost blow-outs and cope with booming visitor demand.
As the country prepares for a surge in tourists and migration, the government has floated changes to its immigration system letting companies administer tests, detect fraud and recommend decisions to grant or refuse visas.
Vast swathes of its visa system would gradually move to private companies…
The department hopes the overhaul will prepare it for an expected 50 per cent surge in visa and citizenship applications by 2026, when numbers are predicted to top 13 million a year…
“The department would retain functions where direct control is necessary for ensuring government sovereignty over decision-making and the protection of the Australian community,” it said…
So after witnessing widespread rorting of Australia’s vocational education and training system by private operators, as well as widespread visa rorting by companies, amid vast segments of Australian business deploying wage crushing strategies and a developing crisis in household income, the government now wants to hand administration of Australia’s visa/migration system over to the private sector?
What could possibly go wrong? The Government has clearly jumped the shark on immigration.
