Labor plans to stamp out the exploitation of migrant workers, but it won’t succeed until we treat it like tax avoidance. By Brendan Coates, Trent Wiltshire & Tyler Reysenbach, The Conversation

The exploitation of migrants is widespread in Australia. Our recent report for the Grattan Institute, Short-changed, found that as many as one in six migrant workers are paid less than the national minimum wage, which is meant to be the least a worker in Australia can be paid.

The reforms to tackle migrant worker exploitation are a big step in the right direction. But until we take exploitation more seriously, it isn’t going to stop.

Labor plans to stamp out the exploitation of migrant workers, but it won’t succeed until we treat it like tax avoidance. By Brendan Coates, Trent Wiltshire & Tyler Reysenbach from Grattan Institute, The Conversation