The Greens tell SBS News how they plan to make it quicker and easier for migrants to bring their parents to live with them in Australia.
They are readying a push to make it faster and easier for migrants to reunite with their parents in Australia.
The party wants to cap increasingly ballooning wait times for permanent parent visa applications at 12 months and clear the application backlog - which is currently at around 97,000 - within three years.
Without applying for permanent parent visas, migrants can only bring parents to Australia temporarily on tourist visas.
“I’m appalled that the government is keeping people apart from their loved ones for years, and in some cases, decades,” Greens leader Richard Di Natale told SBS News ahead of the party's Family Reunion policy launch in Sydney on Tuesday.
“I come from a close-knit Italian migrant family. I believe there is nothing more important than family."
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