Our research has influenced legislative changes in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland, and has been cited as the authoritative account of migrant exploitation in every parliamentary inquiry and national taskforce considering it.
View academic citations for our founders:
- Bassina Farbenblum Google Scholar | ResearchGate
- Laurie Berg Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Key citations
September 2023: Working Future: The Australian Government’s White Paper on Jobs and Opportunities
August 2023: Report of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
May 2023: Review of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Submission #124)
April 2023: Report of the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
November 2022: Report of the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
March 2022: Report of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Protecting Migrant Workers) Bill 2021 [Provisions]
March 2022: Report of the Senate Economics References Committee’s Inquiry into unlawful underpayment of employees' remuneration - “Systemic, sustained and shameful”
September 2021: Report of the Senate Select Committee on Temporary Migration’s Inquiry into the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions
January 2021: Report of the NSW Legislative Council Portfolio Committee No. 3 - Education’s Inquiry into the Future development of the NSW tertiary education sector
March 2019: Report of the Migrant Workers’ Taskforce
February 2019: Report of the Queensland Education, Employment and Small Business Committee Inquiry into Wage Theft in Queensland (2018)
November 2018: Report of the Senate Education and Employment References Committee’s Inquiry into the exploitation of general and specialist cleaners working in retail chains for contracting or subcontracting cleaning companies - “Wage theft? What wage theft?!”