Plea for lifeline for 1.1 million people on temporary visas

"Similarly with insecure visas, people are much less likely to go to the hospital even if they are unwell."

An open letter penned by Disabled People's Organisations Australia and endorsed by more than 70 organisations said the disability pension was inadequate support during the crisis. "I was on the verge of building myself up. I was looking at being stable. I was on the uphill and when all this turned up it just dropped," Mr Brest said.

She said there was an increase of young people sleeping rough, which was likely to continue with other factors such as rental stress and domestic violence.

What are their countries doing? If we went to India Pakistan China we would get fuck all assistance from them. Maybe their governments should stand up and care for their citizens too. They all know and choose to come here knowing their entitlements. Tas & SA are giving millions.

To get a visa, you need to demonstrate that you can sustain your financial independence for a period of time: this is exactly the reason why the visa condition exists.

that's the risk you take on a temp visa, you are aware that you not receive any government handouts, not eligible for the dole, Ltd access to Medicare (depending on which country you come from)I had to go through the process when I first arrived here and took me 3 yrs to get pr.

There are citizens with no federal government support whatsoever. Why should we be giving taxpayer money to foreigners? The condition of their visas is that they SUPPORT THEMSELVES without resort to government help.

it’s baffling the amount of people telling temporary migrants to go and F... off. Are we forgetting they came here to be part of our country? the road is: temporary - permanent - citizen. We let them come here we are now responsible for them. At least until they get back home

SEE EU... EUROPE..... RACIST XENOPHOBIC AUSSIE...

Fun fact for anyone who thinks temp migrants have no right to financial assistance - they pay sponsorship fees not just tax. They literally pay to be here. How’s that for a bit of perspective ?

It's nothing to with paying tax it's to do with employment ..You can't feed your self and was told to return home..in to this virus is finished and wiped out ...it's world wide not just Australia ...wake up

Send them home ..real simple it's an epidemic they should not be here...it's WRONG to keep them here all work visas should have been stopped ...it's time to fight this epidemic by sending all work visas home ....real simple...like all ships passages it's time to return home

deport them all home

One can only feel for anyone that has lost their job, whether they are citizens or temp workers, but the louder your chorus the more likely that temp visas will be cancelled altogether. 90% of workers are still working. I’m not sure where the 1.1m figure came from

Wow the anti-immigrant brigade literally wait in the wings for these articles. Reality check-temp migrants (many here for years & have kids born here) moved to regions, filled skill shortages in jobs you didn’t want, worked shitty hours for shit pay (coz you won’t) and PAID TAX

What are their countries' foreign missions in Australia doing? And where did this 1.1 mil number came from?

Why is this so difficult to fathom? It’s a crisis. It’s a reset. There will be losers. Not everyone will be covered. Temp visa holders are the obvious choice.

It’s true, but not our fault. Every nation is going through same tough time. Please reach out to your embassy and get back home. Stay save and get help from community groups for food and groceries. Government has a limit what they can do!

Almost 23 million U.S. jobs were created in the last decade. In a single month, they were all but wiped out In d past weeks we have extra 700k joining d dole queue It would be crazy to add in foreign students n temps We r not running a charity

IMHO this should be considered GladysB marshall_steven AnnastaciaMP DanielAndrewsMP JoshFrydenberg AlboMP ScottMorrisonMP

I’m sorry for you all but please go to your Embassy for help or go home. We have to look after our own first.

Damn thats rough

'Temporary visa' That is the point, Time to go home

You were told to go to your home country seek help from your family or embassy irresponsable gohome

So if I were in another country during this timw would that country give me welfare

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