Australia's new working holiday maker visa a success
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13:11 28/11/2005
Rural Australian fruit growers desperate for workers have been helped out by the large number of backpackers who took advantage of changes to the working holiday maker visa scheme . Three weeks after...
Australia faces shortage of 195,000 workers
10:19 25/11/2005
Australia faces a shortfall of 195,000 workers in five years time, the federal government spokesman says. An ageing population was to blame for the expected shortfall, which would have a massive...
Britons migrating to Australia happy with house prices
11:13 24/11/2005
Australia is crying out for immigrants to bring their skills. That's good news for Britons, who will be pleasantly surprised by house prices in cities such as Melbourne. Catherine Moye of the...
Australia considers opening London call centre for visas
18:57 21/11/2005
Australia's Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) is looking to open a call centre based in London as a first contact for people in the UK and Europe enquiring about...
Australia attracting other islands' best and brightest
12:43 21/11/2005
Australia's immigration policy of luring professionals and skilled workers from poorer countries could be damaging the countries they leave behind, by attracting their doctors, nurses, nation-...
Immigrants should embrace both old culture and new
12:12 17/11/2005
Countries hoping to integrate new immigrants should make sure the immigrants remain proud of and interested in their ethnic culture as well as their new home, suggests a new study on immigrant youth...
