OPINION: Parents may wait up to 40 years to join family in Australia. Is a visa lottery the answer?
“Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary”....
Peter Mares is an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University's School of Media Film and Journalism, Monash University. He is also a fellow with the Centre for Policy Development and a contributing editor to Inside to Inside Story magazine. Peter is the author of three books: 'No Place Like Home: repairing Australia's housing crisis' (Text 2018), 'Not Quite Australian: how temporary migration is changing the nation' (Text, 2016) and 'Borderline' (UNSW Press 2001), an award winning analysis of Australia's response to asylum seekers and refugees. Peter was previously a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for 25 years.
“Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary”....