Sustained investigative reporting has unveiled wide-reaching problems in our immigration system,the government response will be closely watched.
Former top cop Christine Nixon reveals that,as rorters and criminals flooded the visa system,the authorities went missing.
Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.
Private colleges will be banned from paying commissions to education agents who poach students from rival institutions in a sweeping crackdown on visa rorting.
Almost two dozen women have been intercepted at the border on suspicion of being brought into the country as part of sex-trafficking operations.
A secret review of the immigration system shows how some criminal syndicates own every step of the chain to game the education visa process and gain access to the country.
Poor management of the nation’s already inadequate immigration and visa laws and a focus on stopping boat arrivals has allowed organised crime syndicates to flourish.
Traffickers and people exploiting foreign workers have been rorting Australia’s migration system to ply their trades. Now former chief commissioner Christine Nixon will conduct an inquiry.
A global human trafficking syndicate has exploited flaws in Australian border security and the immigration system that allowed it to run a national illegal sex racket.
A new taskforce will target criminals exploiting the migration system after revelations of widespread visa rorting,foreign worker exploitation and drug crime.
Clare O’Neil says criminals are getting into Australia as corrupt agents,and education institutions help traffic sex slaves and drugs. But legitimate workers can’t find their way through a broken system.