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Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two years as the government looks to ...
All for Australia is a 1984 book by Australian historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey. It criticises Australian immigration policy and the direction in which it is pushing the country. The book examines the way policy developed in the 1970s and 1980s and explores what Blainey views as the disproportionately high levels of Asian immigration to ...
The Australian Government is providing an additional $1 million in funding for emergency financial assistance in 2024-25 to people from significantly affected areas of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories who have arrived in Australia on temporary visas and who have been assessed to be in financial hardship.
NZYQ v Minister for Immigration Court High Court of Australia Full case name NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Decided 28 November 2023 Citation HCA 37 Court membership Judges sitting Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Steward, Gleeson, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJ Case opinions Detention of non-citizens is not for a non-punitive purpose if there is no real prospect of ...
Australia maintains a list of skilled occupations that are currently acceptable for immigration to Australia. [52] In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the Australian government reduced its immigration target by 14%, and the permanent migration program for skilled migrants was reduced to 115,000 people for that financial year. [53]
Australia operates a number of immigration detention facilities within the country, as well as several offshore processing centres. All Australian immigration detention facilities are managed by the British services company Serco on behalf of the Australian government. Australia currently has three functioning offshore centres, and ten ...
New Zealand has tightened its immigration rules before. In September 2022, the government updated the country's golden visa scheme—popular with Chinese investors—to bar property investments as ...
Following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022, the newly-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicated that while the Section 501 deportation policy would remain, he was open to "tweaking" the policy to take into account the amount of time an individual had lived in Australia. In addition, New Zealand Prime Minister ...