After a six-week delay, Immigration Minister Tony Burke has announced changes to the migration system. Amid all the analysis and discussion it triggered, there was nothing to indicate an understanding that these changes need to have a safety net for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence.
There has been significant work documenting the connection between temporary migration and domestic and family violence. This includes the ways the migration system can be weaponised by perpetrators and can punish victim-survivors (including by excluding them from access to support).
