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Northern Australia needs more working holiday visa holders

18:43 05/12/2015
The Northern Territory in Australia is experiencing a shortage of hospitality workers, resulting in businesses struggling to recruit staff and business closures. Demand for overseas nationals with...

Australian immigration criticised over cricketer's citizenship

11:18 03/03/2014
Australia's former immigration ministers Chris Bowen and Brendan O'Connor have been criticised for decisions to grant visas to a Pakistani asylum seeker, Fawad Ahmed, and to change the law so that Mr...

Australian senator calls for 35m population through immigration

15:41 13/01/2014
Sam Dastyari, an Australian Labor Party senator from New South Wales, has written an article in Australian newspaper The Australian calling for a 'big Australia'. Mr Dastyari says 'I believe in a big...

Australian immigration minister says refugees will suffer after defeat in Senate

18:38 07/01/2014
As we reported on 16th December, the Australian government was recently defeated in its attempt to reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs). These visas were used by the last Conservative...

Australian immigration minister fails to reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas

11:58 16/12/2013
The Australian government has been defeated in the upper house of the Australian parliament in a vote on the reintroduction of Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs). The Coalition which now governs...

Australian immigration minister exempts highly skilled workers from LMT

17:27 26/11/2013
Australia's Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Michaelia Cash, has announced that employers recruiting for 'highly skilled occupations' will be exempted from the Labour...

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