On Wednesday, the Albanese government announced the biggest reforms to Australia's visa system in more than a decade.

The government crackdown will see $50 million spent on tougher compliance and permanent investigation teams in a bid to stamp out criminal exploitation of the migration industry. 

The new measures are part of the government’s formal response to a report by former police commissioner Christine Nixon into the exploitation of the visa system. 

Will the crackdown end the criminal activity rife in our visa system? Is former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to blame for all of these problems, as the government claims? And what will the government do about migration more generally, what is the right balance and who gets to decide? 

Plus we will check in on the voice campaign which has only one week left to run. 

Chief political correspondent David Crowe and economic policy director at the Grattan Institute, Brendan Coates join Jacqueline Maley on Inside Politics.

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