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Rubbery figures on migrant flood

7 April 2010

The number looks huge, but only because the ABS has changed the definition... read full story

No need to hasten spending cuts in growing economy

6 March 2010

After all the stimulus, recovery is starting to look self-sustaining... read full story

Tapping retiree talent base

23 February 2010

Innovation by NSW councils will be on show in Sydney today at a forum on media trends and how the organisations will communicate in the future, writes Harvey Grennan... read full story

Crackdown on skilled migrants

8 February 2010

ABOUT 20,000 people will have their visa applications cancelled as the Rudd government launches a crackdown in the skilled migration program... read full story

Till marriage and sacking us do part

5 February 2010

AN INDIAN employee at a Moree crane factory was sacked and is at risk of deportation for returning home to get married, prompting union calls for greater scrutiny of regional firms that employ almost solely 457 visa holders. Mani Saravanan had spent about two years working for Ironbark Fabrication when, in August, he travelled to his home town near Chennai for six days to get engaged. The wedding was set for December 6... read full story

Bailey delayed retirement after fires disaster

8 October 2009

LIBERAL MP Fran Bailey wanted to announce her plan to quit politics as early as January this year — but held off after February's Black Saturday bushfires devastated her community... read full story

The crisis that isn't quite can teach us, all the same

12 September 2009

THE global financial crisis which began in earnest this time last year is slowly undoing changes wrought by the long boom years which preceded it... read full story

457: A Visa Revisited

17 November 2008

IT IS clear that the system of temporary employment visas has taken hold in Australia, a significant departure from the former policy of insisting on permanent migration to gain work here. After nearly a year in office, the Labor Government has carried out its review of the temporary skilled migration program known more widely as the Subclass 457 Visas introduced 11 years ago under the Coalition. It plans adjustments, not abolition... read full story

Moves To Overhaul Temp Visa Scheme

14 November 2008

AUSTRALIA should pay temporary skilled migrants market rates and name companies employing 20 or more such workers on a website, an independent review of the 457 visa scheme has said... read full story

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