The Coalition party have unveiled plans to cut Australia’s migration in take if elected to Government in the next election. Scott Morrison, the Opposition Immigration spokes person says “Australia’s cities will not be able to hand that many people”.

The Opposition Party want the total number of people immigrating to Australia to be cut, including students studying in Australia and people looking to work in Australia.

Scott Morrison, from the Coalition Party said “It is averaging more than 300,000 per year at the moment and when you compare that to the average under the Coalition, that was just over 125,000 per year”.

The Australia Government have a newly appointed Population Minister, called Tony Burke, who says the projected population of 36million is not a Government target. He says future government will take into account the wider issues like infrastructure, transport, water availability and urban planning.

The Australian Industry Goup CEO Heather Rideout says the opposition claims about Australia Migration, in particularly the skilled migration, being “out of control” are “ridiculous”

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The Baird report that supports the changes to the skilled migration program announced in Feb 2010 that remove the incentives for overseas students applying to study in Australia in order to obtain permanent residence.

The Australian Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, has welcomed the Baird report that supports the changes to the skilled migration program announced in Feb 2010 that remove the incentives for overseas students applying to study in Australia in order to obtain permanent residence status after graduation.

The changes announced to the Australian Skilled Migration program has a new and more targeted skilled occupations list that is more focused on skills that will address Australia’s future skills needs. The changes which see an end of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) will be replaced by the new targeted skills occupations list.

Overseas students currently studying in Australia who have a vocational higher education or postgraduate Visa will still be able to apply for permanent residency if their occupation is ON the new skilled occupations list to be released later in 2010.

Overseas students currently studying in Australia on a higher education or postgraduate visa whose occupation is NOT on the skilled occupations list will be allowed to spend up to eighteen months living in Australia to allow them to find an Australian employer to sponsor them for a Visa.

The planned changes to Australia’s skilled Migration program will not effect any international students studying in Australia who plan to return to their home country after their studying in Australia is completed.

The Baird report, by Bruce Baird, a former Australian Member of Parliament, recommended a tougher national accreditation and tougher protection for foreign students. Mr Baird felt that some schools were taking advantage of international students wanting to study in Australia.

Mr Baird also commented on the recent attacks on Indian students studying in Australia. ” The recent attacks on young Indian students has saddened me as an Australian. It is extremely disappointing to see Australia’s reputation as a safe and tolerant country damaged.”

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The Australia Department of Immigration has created a specialist unit to investigate the widespread fraud in Australia Immigration Working Holiday Visas.

So far, sixty four Australia Working Visas have been cancelled by Australia Immigration, with a further nineteen visas being reviewed. An Irish national has been convicted of fraud. A spokesperson for Australia Immigration Department stated “There has been more than 100 fraudulent claims identified this financial year”.

More than two hundred Internet advertisements have been found offering to buy or sell documents for backpackers to extend their working holiday visa by claiming that they had worked in jobs in rural areas without the backpacker having ever left Sydney. The cost of the Internet advertised documents being $400.

The Australia Working Holiday Visa (subclass 417) can be submitted online and allows people to extend their stay in Australia by a year if the person can prove that they have worked in a rural area for a minimum of three months.

The online applications for extending the Australia Working Holiday Visa (subclass 417) have been abused by third parties selling Australian business numbers linked to farms so that backpackers can claim that they have worked on rural farms.

Many backpackers are getting to hear about the false documentation through other backpackers in hostels once they are already in Australia. Unlike other Australia Visa scams aimed at international students, this is aimed at European students notable those from the UK.

First reported by Erik Jensen, November 2009 in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Sydney, Australia came tops for friendliness, personal encounters and cultural diversity in a global online survey of over 10,000 adults from 50 cities across 20 major developed and developing countries.

Sydney came second overall behind Paris, beating London, Rome and New York who made up the top five cities.

Despite this, Sydney is struggling to lure visitors during the global downturn, as flights from Britain are hit by the British Government announcing it will double air passenger taxes. One in 10 flights from the UK is expected to disappear within the next twelve months. Already 40 scheduled flights including some to Australia have been dropped in the last twelve months due to falling passenger numbers.

There were further signs of the increasing competition between Sydney and Melbourne for the decreasing tourist dollar. Melbourne beat Sydney in a recent Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2009 Liveability global survey. Melbourne finished third and Sydney came a disappointing ninth.

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The UN has stated it is worried that the global economic downturn will fuel increasing levels of refugees and migrants as well as increases in xenophobia as people look for causes to their economic problems.

Australia is looking at reducing the number of places on its skilled migration program, “as a reaction to the economic circumstances”, Australian Immigration Chris Evans confirmed.

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The Australian Government is looking to reduce the number of people granted working visas as a result of the global economic downturn as a way of protecting Australian jobs.

Australian jobs in building and manufacturing have been targeted by the Australian Government and will be removed from the skills list meaning a reduction of 18,500 immigrant workers this year.

Other skilled jobs like Doctors and nurses, or other industry sectors which have acute skill shortage still exist have not been affected yet. The skill list is now made up of occupations from health and medical, engineering and IT.

The move to cut Australian Immigration has been welcomed by Australian Trade
Unions.

The reduction to the number of skilled Australia Visas to be granted this year follows the announcement in December that resulted in only migrants sponsored by an employer on the 457 visa scheme or in an occupation on the critical skills list being granted a Australia visa under the Australia Skilled Migration Program.

The Australia Immigration Minister, Senor Chris Evans, said the Australian Government intended to constantly review the critical skills list and will remove any occupations where demand can be met by Australian workers.

If the global economic downturn continues Immigration to Australia will undoubtedly become harder for those people wanting to work in Australia.

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Australian Immigration Minister wants States to increase skilled migration

The Australian Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, has urged the states to increase their use of state sponsored skilled migration in order to meet their demands for skilled labour.

The Australian Federal Government’s permanent skilled migration program has been increased by an additional 31,000 skilled migrants under the Rudd Government to help employers in Australia with their current skills shortage.

Chris Evans, the Australian Immigration Minister said “I will be encouraging the states and territories to increase their use of state sponsored migration to better link skilled workers to the economic needs in their states or territories.”

The Australian Government is considering providing the States and Territories with greater flexibility to enable them to sponsor more skilled workers for those areas with skill shortages due to high demand.

Australia Immigration annually is now 190,300 places for 2008/09, of which skilled migration visas make up 133,500 places.

Last year, skilled immigration visas totaled 108,500 places of which 7500 were skilled migrants on immigration visas sponsored by a State or Territory. State or Territory sponsored skilled migrants forms less than 10 per cent of the overall skilled migration, with employer sponsored skilled migration accounting for 20 per cent, and independent migration comprising more than half the skilled migration program.

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Australian and New Zealand Greek youths to compete in Adelaide’s Pan- Hellenic Games in 2007

The goals of the event are to promote the eternal ideas of the Olympic Spirit and to strengthen the ties amongst the Greek Community. The games will include events in track and field, swimming, weightlifting, Taekwondo, tennis, gymnastics, and mens/womens soccer. The games will be open to any young person between the ages of 16 and 30 of Greek ancestry and who is a permanent resident of Australia or New Zealand.

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British Nurses are heading for work in Australia

Britain’s Royal College of Nursing has warned the UK Government that too many UK nurses are being lured to work in Australia.

The head of Policy at the Royal College of Nursing, Howard Catton, explained that UK nurses were receiving attractive offers to work in Australia. He said that the UK needed to retain the nurses his college were training. Catton told the BBC he had met with Australian employers who had traveled to the UK with the intention of employing sixty nurses, but had made job offers to double that number.

Last year saw 5000 nurses signaled an intention to work in an Australian hospital. At the same time the number of foreign nurses wanting to work in the UK had declined.

Australian businesses have increased their recruitment activity in the UK on the basis that the unemployment amongst NHS nurses and downsizing in the UK provides them with a pool of potential recruits.

“There is a belief that in the UK we don’t need the nurses we’ve got – but we know we do need them,” Catton said.

The increasing number of people looking to immigrate to Australia compounded with the limited number of immigration places available has meant there is greater competition amongst applicants for Australian visas and jobs in Australia. It is now probably more important than ever to have a good understanding of how the Australian immigration officials assess visa applications in order that applicants can maximise their chance of gaining an Australian Visa and a job in Australia.

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Australia Immigration to South Australia at record levels.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have just released figures that shows the level of Migration to South Australia is at a record high.

During the last twelve months to April 2007, South Australia received a net gain from overseas migration of 12,600 people, and the first quarter of 2007 was the largest quarterly gain by the State within the last twenty five years.

The ABS recorded that every quarter from 1986 has had a net increase in overseas migration (the exception being June 1993 and June 1994). The ABS figures show that immigration to Australia has never been more popular and that South Australia’s efforts to actively recruit overseas talent is paying off and has made a significant contribution to South Australia’s residential population. “I think the state is doing an excellent job,” said Michael Hickinbotham, Australian Population Institute chairman.

Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that migration is increasing to South Australia, and that they are on track for their target population of 2 million people by 2050.

“It’s a great example of a state government being proactive in the effort to grow the population in a responsible and sustainable way and it’s supported by the federal government with the regional visa program,” he added.

The first quarter of 2007 saw a total of 57,000 people migrate to Australia, which is the largest increase in Australia Immigration since the first quarter of 2001.

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