Does it surprise you to know that the Australian employment market is now more reliant on overseas talent than it was five years ago? According to recent findings, global professionals bring fresh expertise, filling the gaps that local markets struggle to meet. In October 2024, the Australian Bureau of Statistics […]
Read More On Monday, the 11th of December 2023, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles announced the Labor Party’s new migration strategy, with the aim of reducing net overseas migration from 510,000 to 250,000 by 2025. International students and the 485 Graduate visa in focus KEY POINTS The […]
Read More On 9 May, 2023, the Australian Government announced that the planning level for the 2023–24 Permanent Migration Program would be set at 190,000 places. The 2023–24 permanent Migration Program has been set at the pre-COVID planning level of 190,000. This is a slight reduction of 5000 places compared with the […]
Read More Overview “It is a mess … so complicated that if I drew you a diagram it would look like a tangled bowl of spaghetti,” This is how our migration system was described by Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Clare O’Neil MP on 2 September 2022. The Minister for Home […]
Read More Young people from Brazil will be able to work, study and holiday in Australia under a new memorandum of understanding for a reciprocal Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visa arrangement signed today. Commencing on 1 July 2022, the arrangement will allow up to 500 young Brazilians aged between 18 and […]
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