ZDNet |
Australia to increase outsourcing in visa approval process
ZDNet The Australian government has turned to the market for help with transforming the country's visa system, with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) seeking a provider to design, implement, and operate a new visa business. According ... Labor continues to flip-flop on immigration |
ABC Online |
Former migration lawyer Florin Burhala pursued in Romania over millions in unpaid tax
ABC Online Between 2007 and 2012, Burhala and his companies were awarded more than $7 million worth of contracts from the Department of Immigration to assist asylum seekers apply for protection visas in Australia. In 2010-11 alone, Burhala and his companies ... |
Occupational hazards and benefits for Filipinos in Australia
The Manila Times According to the 2014 census, 225,110 Filipinos have made Australia their home, constituting 3.4 percent of Australia's overseas-born residents and one percent of Australian's total population. More Filipinos were able to migrate Down Under based on ... |
The Australian |
Melbourne, Sydney housing boom to flow on to smaller capitals
The Australian Macquarie Group's new chief economist, Ric Deverell, said Australia's capital cities outside Sydney and Melbourne could begin to benefit as more workers moved out of the highest priced cities in Australia and net migration started to pick up. Prices in ... |
Labor calls for urgent action on foreign worker visas after reports of exploitation
Brisbane Times "Labor has genuine concerns that 400 visas are being used as a back door to bypass the Turnbull government's own skilled migration rules. Loopholes in our visa system undermine the integrity of Australia's skilled migration program and impacts local ... |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
Labor calls for urgent action on foreign worker visas after reports of exploitation
The Sydney Morning Herald "Labor has genuine concerns that 400 visas are being used as a back door to bypass the Turnbull government's own skilled migration rules. Loopholes in our visa system undermine the integrity of Australia's skilled migration program and impacts local ... |
The West Australian |
NZ to vote after tight, volatile race
The West Australian New Zealanders are heading to the polls in the most volatile and hard-fought race in recent history, which could usher in a change in openness to migration and trade and the central bank's approach to monetary policy. Volatile opinion polls have shown ... |
Maternity leave cut short to handle clients' commercial and migration needs
South China Morning Post Located in Martin Place at the heart of Sydney's central business district, the firm is sought by Chinese and international clients for its migration and commercial expertise. The rapidly growing firm has a wide range of Australian solicitors with ... |
Reuters |
New Zealand goes to polls on Saturday, ending tight, volatile race
Reuters WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealanders go to the polls on Saturday in the most volatile and hard-fought race in recent history, which could usher in a change in openness to migration and trade and the central bank's approach to monetary policy. Volatile ... |
Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
The Interpreter In 1996 the newly elected Howard government introduced a number of significant changes to Australia's migration policy, affecting some visa categories in the skilled and family reunification streams but not the remaining migration channels.[13] The new ... |
Sight Magazine - World Vision among NGO coalition calling for ...
Sight Magazine World Vision Australia is among a coalition of NGOs calling on the Australian Government to significantly increase the country's annual humanitarian refugee ... |
World Vision among NGO coalition calling for Australia to do more to protect child refugees
Sight Magazine World Vision Australia is among a coalition of NGOs calling on the Australian Government to significantly increase the country's annual humanitarian refugee intake and offer more children protection, to ban immigration detention of children and to ... |
Alliance calls on Australian Government to lead the way in protecting displaced children
Save The Children Australia “We congratulate the Australian Government on its role in the adoption of the New York Declaration – now it's time to show the world that this document can be turned into a more detailed plan and real action, to ensure child refugees and migrants are ... |
Angela Merkel set to soldier on
The Australian If German opinion polls are correct, there is little doubt about the outcome of Sunday's election. But as Chancellor Angela Merkel anticipates the fourth term she said she would never seek, she must not forget the hard lessons of mass migration the ... |
Migration and border policy links: Cox's Bazar, refugee swaps, illegal deportation and more
The Interpreter The International Organization for Migration has published a report on the movement of Rohingya across the Myanmar-Bangladesh border – a staggering 420,000 people have crossed since 25 August. NPR's Michael Sullivan is on the ground in the Cox's ... |
Alliance calls on Australian Government to lead the way in ...
UNICEF Australia SYDNEY, Thursday 21 September 2017 - A coalition of NGOs is calling on the Australian Government to lead the way in protecting child refugees and migrants, ... |
The National Business Review |
Immigration outpaces Kiwis leaving in August
The National Business Review Migration from the UK had the biggest increase on a net basis, up 47% to 6700, with net South African migration up 44% to 4900. The number of net migrants from Australia dropped to 226, from 1800 a year earlier. China continued to be the biggest source ... |
NZ net migration up in August, immigration outpaces New Zealanders leaving
sharechat Migration from the UK had the biggest increase on a net basis, up 47 percent to 6,700, with net South African migration up 44 percent to 4,900. The number of net migrants from Australia dropped to 226, from 1,800 a year earlier. China continued to be ... |
WIRED |
Geneticists Trace an Australian Migration with Aboriginal Artifacts
WIRED Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien, right, appears in a 1938 photograph collected by anthropologists along with a lock of his hair. Today, 87-year-old O'Brien is a Karuna elder, and DNA from his hair has been used to track the migration of his ancestors ... |
SBS |
Monarchists support citizenship changes but raise some concerns
SBS Entrepreneur Dick Smith said he was sceptical of all the measures, in the shadow of his million-dollar campaign encouraging Australia to slash its annual migration intake by more than half. "I think this is a complete non-issue," he said. "I don't ... |
The Advertiser |
Push to make it easier for migrants to come to Australia and take hard-to-fill jobs in regional areas
The Advertiser The SACES report — the final in a series on migration — made 14 recommendations to create a regionally focused migration program that could help drive growth in regional towns and reduce pressure on Australia's big cities. It found the Federal ... |
SBS |
Karen overtakes Italian as second most spoken language in South Australian town
SBS Ms Eh was hoping to be sent to Brisbane, where she knew there was an established community of migrants, but she was not given the choice. She had no idea what would await her family in the small South Australian town a five hour drive from Melbourne ... |
SBS |
Karen overtakes Italian as second most spoken language in South Australia's Mount Gambier
SBS Ms Eh was hoping to be sent to Brisbane, where she knew there was an established community of migrants, but she was not given the choice. She had no idea what would await her family in the small South Australian town a five hour drive from Melbourne ... |
Extinct Denisovans from Siberia Made Stunning Jewelry. Did They Also Discover Australia?
Ancient Origins Now Professor Richard 'Bert' Roberts, director of the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, has urged deep study of ancient migration routes to understand how the Denisovan DNA exists to this day in the native people of ... |
Richard Denniss: Immigration policy must reflect per capita impacts
MacroBusiness (blog) Listener question: “I've heard arguments that letting refugees into Australia will actually help our economy as more people would mean there's more people to spend money and consume. Therefore, boosting the economy. Do you think this is true?” Richard ... |
The Australian Financial Review |
TPG Telecom's David Teoh asks market to trust him again as NBN storm hits
The Australian Financial Review There are nerves about the capex costs, especially in Australia. There are nerves about the earnings the projects will deliver. And there are nerves about the on-going impact of the NBN migration. As he's done in the past, Teoh's will need to convert ... |
The West Australian |
Is WA heading for a skills shortage?
The West Australian “To achieve a skilled local workforce, the Government can't (afford to) put their foot on the pipeline of apprenticeship and traineeship support while also reducing the skilled migration list — this shuts down every option available to business,” she ... |
MacroBusiness (blog) |
NZ Labour schools Australian Labor on immigration
MacroBusiness (blog) In the lead-up to this Saturday's New Zealand General Election, the Labour opposition has continually taken aim at New Zealand's excessive immigration program, which Labour claims is choking housing, infrastructure and public services in Auckland, as ... |
The West Australian |
Shortage of key skills looms
The West Australian “To achieve a skilled local workforce, the Government can't (afford to) put their foot on the pipeline of apprenticeship and traineeship support while also reducing the skilled migration list — this shuts down every option available to business,” she ... |
The Australian |
NBN's special services switch off
The Australian The company building the NBN is urging service providers and businesses to prepare to migrate their special services to the NBN ahead of the first disconnections next year. An estimated 200,000 business services in Australia fall under the special ... |
The Conversation US |
RAISE Act: Global panel of scholars explains 'merit-based' immigration
The Conversation US As Congress takes up the issue of immigration, we turned to our global network of scholars to get their perspective on how points systems work. |
Crikey (registration) |
Fact check: is the AAT really out of control?
Crikey (registration) The Australian reports today that a Palestinian man, known as Mr Khalil, had his application for an Australian visa rejected by the Immigration Department and then overturned by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which ruled that although the man had ... |
