MIGRATION has emerged as one of the defining issues of the 21st century. With hundreds of millions of people now living outside their countries of birth, the hot topic of people mobility has grown in visibility and significance. The development of mode...

Unprecedented economic growth in Western Australia means that up to 17,800 extra skilled workers will be desperately needed every year for the next ten years, according to a report launched today by education and training minister Mark McGowan. Some of th...

The estimated shortage of 10,000 workers across the ACT could double over the next three years when large numbers of baby boomers retire. Public service job cutbacks in Tuesday week's Federal budget, tipped to cost Canberra up to 3000 positions, is lik...

Sydney - After Spain, Australia is tops with the 2,000 or so people who pack up and leave Britain every week. Last year, 23,000 British people came to Australia for good, twice the number a decade ago. Since the 1970s, Canberra has run a non-discrimina...

Good news for Aspirants of Australian Visa- Facing severe shortage of skilled workers, it has lifted restrictions on working holiday and skilled workers visa. In last 20 days, it released about 6000 visas to skilled workers and is likely to release many m...

COMPUTING professionals led the list of top 15 occupations for primary 457 visa grants in 2006-07, the Immigration Department said. As the new temporary foreign workers change the face of Australia's workplaces, business groups last week called for an ...

More than 28,000 young Koreans are working and enjoying holidays in Australia, making Korea the second largest holder of the working holiday visa after the United Kingdom for the country. Between July 2006 and June 2007, 28,562 working holiday visas we...

These include to: (i) remove occupations covered by an industry labour agreement from being nominated under Subclass 457 Standard Business Sponsorship arrangements; (ii) redefine certain other occupations that may be nominated under Subclass 457 Sta...

A discussion paper on how to further improve standards in the migration advice sector was released today by the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Hon Teresa Gambaro MP. ‘Migration agents are now used by over 70 per cent of appli...

The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today unveiled a package of migration measures designed to address Australia’s skills and labour shortages. Senator Evans said the package had the potential to provide thousands of ad...

More than 14,000 new citizens can now finally call Australia home after immigration paved their way to a new life in the world's friendliest country. These people would join over 4 million others who had become Australian citizens when Australian Citiz...

Adding to the problems of a booming economy is Australia's looming labour shortage. A paper prepared for the Academy of Social Sciences Experts say the country needs to boost immigration by 30 per cent within the next 20 years to meet its growing work ...

As record numbers of Brits leave the UK for a new life abroad, currency specialist HiFX has released its first Annual Global Emigration Hotspots Report. The study reveals migration trends in 2007 and predicts where Brits will be moving to this year. Austr...

AUSTRALIA'S population is growing at its fastest rate in nearly two decades, thanks to rising fertility rates and an immigration boom bigger than that during the aftermath of both world wars. The number of Australians grew by 1.5 per cent, or 315,700 p...

DRACONIAN 457 visa regulations introduced two months before Saturday's federal election rout may be scrapped after pleas from industry to drop the rules that have all but killed off applications for temporary IT work permits. The Information Technology...