#3522. Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Access to high-quality migration advice can often be crucial to obtaining a visa, and migration advisors have attracted ongoing scrutiny from policymakers, leading to successive inquiries and reviews. This article explores one such recent inquiry. It adopts a critical discourse analysis to examine the way the inquiry’s official report presents migration advisors, and how it frames the inquiry process itself. Through an examination of the ‘textual travels’ submissions undergo when incorporated in the report, the article finds that these texts are either transformed to support dominant discourses, or simply excluded. The article concludes that decision-making is inaccurately presented as a participatory, evidence-based process.
Keywords:
Critical discourse analysis; entextualisation; evidence-based policymaking; government decision-making; law; law and language; legal practice; legal-lay communication; migration; migration advice; parliamentary inquiry; policy; regulation; social actor analysis; textual travels

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