Parents may wait up to 40 years to join family in Australia. Is a visa lottery the answer?
- Written by Peter Mares, Adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University's School of Media Film and Journalism, Monash University
“Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary”.
This was the view of an expert panel, commissioned by Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil, on Australia’s dysfunctional parent migration system. Parents wanting to migrate to Australia to join their children...
