Ask your Senator to stand against the privatisation of visa services

The Coalition Government are pushing ahead with their plan of selling off our visa services to be run for profit by their corporate mates. Literally, their mates. Turnbull’s former employee and friend Scott Briggs and his company Pacific Blue are in the running for the contract.  

Our visa services are vital to our community; they reunite families, give people a chance at education, bring brain surgeons here. Visa services should be fair, accessible and thorough, run by highly trained, accountable public servants committed to the national interest.

Privatising our visa services to be run for profit by a corporation places all of this at risk and threatens the jobs of 3000 people at the Department of Home Affairs.

Right now, we have an opportunity to send a message that cannot be ignored – that the community wants our visa services to stay in public hands. The decision on which big business consortium will be handed the contract is now with Cabinet, so it is urgent that we ramp up the pressure.

Your Senator needs to hear that this issue matters to you. Email them today to ask them to stand against the privatisation of visa services.

Once you receive a response, please forward it to proudtobepublic@cpsu.org.au

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  • Nick Chugg
    commented 2018-08-16 12:40:27 +1000
    Your email a senator service is not working! It won’t allow me to send the message to anyone?
  • Lindsay O'Neil
    commented 2018-08-12 16:07:54 +1000
    If the Government is really serious about the integrity, security of our borders and the regulation of the flow of emigrants into Australia it is better kept in the hands of the public service who have done the job since the migration act has been in force and have always been fully accountable for their processes and actions. Corporate greed (profit before integrity) as private enterprise will certainly want the whole process deregulated and this will only encourage corruption and graft. You only need to look at what is happening in the banking and financial services industry.

    Selling our visa processing to private enterprise is certainly not going to achieve the same level of security and integrity that is in place now and it would be like disbanding the Defence Force and giving a private security firms or mercenaries the responsibility for the nations defence.
  • Matt Moran
    commented 2018-06-07 18:14:39 +1000
    And vote #1 The Sustainable Australia Party
    (Dick Smith recently joined!)
    https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies
  • Rob Andrew
    commented 2018-06-07 16:28:16 +1000
    Keep it public.
    Passports previously privatised = people got passports with someone elses photo.
    Thats ok said someone, we’ll sue the service provider.
    More jobs for the rich (famous or not) lawyers.
    Keep our government responsible for us. That is why we have a government is it not?