Tips on using a registered migration agent booklet in Filipino
A booklet called Your rights – tips on using a registered migration agent is now in 18 languages including Filipino/Tagalog [...]
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen this week released the Federal government’s new multicultural policy, The People of Australia [...]
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The recent tragedy along Christmas Island shores brought home to Australians the folly of a misplaced compassionate policy. Instead of a new life, before our eyes, dreams died on Australian shores, unknown numbers of asylum seekers, perhaps in hundreds, in missing ships or unreported sea disasters. Unseaworthy vessels should not sail, and inaction or encouragement [...]
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New Zealand, China, India, the United Kingdom and South Africa are now the top five source countries of migrants settling in Australia. More than half of the number of settler arrivals last year came from the five countries [...]
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By 2012, the number of temporary residence work visas subclasses would be reduced by 50 per cent, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Bowen and Minister Assisting on Deregulation Senator Nick Sherry announced recently [...]
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A fast-paced and dramatic video, The Smuggler, that depicts Australian authorities tracking and arresting people involved in financing and supporting people smuggling activities is the latest installment in the Australian Government’s attempts to shut down people smuggling operations [...]
Continue reading …A group of 20 people from seven countries officially joined the Australian family at a special ceremony today in Burnie, Tasmania as Australian Citizenship Day 2010 was launched. The new Australians – who hail from countries including Japan, the United Kingdom, India and Korea – are the first of thousands of people across the country [...]
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Preliminary estimates of Australia’s annual population growth rate slowed to 2.0% over 2009, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The preliminary annual growth rate peaked at 2.2% in the year ended 31 December [....]
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With Australia’s population growth rate now twice the global average, even surpassing that of countries with fast growing populations including the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over the weekend created a Population Ministry [...]
Continue reading …Australia’s population reached 22,066,000 as at 30 September 2009, according to figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is an increase of 451,900 people over the previous year, keeping the growth rate high at 2.1% [...]
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