Australia to welcome thousands more migrants to ease crisis

Australia to welcome thousands more migrants to ease crisis
Australian home affairs minister Clare O'Neil in the thick of last week's jobs summit in Canberra. (Image: Getty)
Bloomberg
Australia has raised its ceiling on permanent migration in a move that will allow as many as 35,000 more workers to enter the country every year as part of an effort to ease worsening labour shortages. The increase could see many more nurses, engineers and agricultural workers join struggling Australian businesses, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil said at the government’s Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra on Friday. Australia previously allowed a maximum 160,000 permanent migrants each year.“Our focus is always Austral...

More Immigration

Superyacht season in a migration war zone begins again
Politics Migrant crisis

Superyacht season in a migration war zone begins again

EU hands border control to Libya: the Med is now the world’s deadliest migrant route.

Bloomberg 21 Apr 2024
Quality migration remains a challenge
Opinion

Iain MacLeod: Quality migration remains a challenge

What the immigration industry expects from the budget.

Iain MacLeod 17 Apr 2024
How an immigration scam was stopped in Thailand
Immigration

How an immigration scam was stopped in Thailand

A large number of applications coming through one agent tipped INZ off to fraud.

Dileepa Fonseka 16 Apr 2024
Thai agents charged over alleged NZ visa fraud
News in Brief

Thai agents charged over alleged NZ visa fraud

Two visa agents in Thailand have been accused of providing fake documents for more than 100 New Zealand visitor visa applications.Jirasin Bunyasing confessed on video to producing fake documents for use on NZ visitor visa applications after a raid and subsequent interrogation by...

Staff reporters 15 Apr 2024