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Inquiry Into Australia's Skilled Migration Program
Inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) is pleased to provide a brief submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s Inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program. CEDA’s submission draws on the findings and recommendations of our suite of recent migration research including Effects of Temporary Migration, Immigration and COVID-19 and A good match: Optimising Australia's permanent skilled migration. There are five key findings of this research, which are outlined below. Five key findings 1. Skilled migration has been critical to Australia’s success Australia’s permanent migration program has served the country well, settling seven million people in Australia over the seven decades between 1945 and 2014, with two million arriving in the last decade of this period. Skilled migration has emerged as the key contributor over recent decades, accounting for most new migrants since 1996. This evolution of Australia’s immigration program has significantly boosted Australia’s skill base and human capital migrants have supplied a third of the increased skills requirements of the Australian economy.i More broadly, migration is estimated to have contributed as much as 0.5 to one percentage point of our annual economic growth rate.ii 2. Skilled migration has not harmed Australian workers CEDA’s 2019 report Effects of Temporary Migration found that recent waves of migrants had not had an adverse effect on the job prospects of the local population. In fact, recent flows of migrants to Australia are in some cases associated with a positive effect on the participation rate of local workers, and the annual wages of local workers. -
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION German Immigrants Took up Land in 1864 In
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION German immigrants took up land in 1864 in the area of Queensland on the Logan River approximately twenty miles south of Brisbane now known as 'Bethania.' They were followed by others and the settlement spread. The area was identified as German for about 100 years. For the historian the questions are: how the Germans came to this area; how they maintained a more or less German identity for so long; and then why that German identity disappeared. 'Bethania' is an anglicization of the name taken by the Lutheran congregation, 'Bethanien,' the German form of the biblical 'Bethany.' In the 1868 Queensland Post Office Directory the name 'Betanien' was applied to the locality occupied by Germans and served by the Logan Reserve post office, but the name did not then come into general usage. 'Bethania' became an official place name from 1885 when the railway station and associated post office were given the name 'Bethania Junction.' The area occupied by the Germans and situated in a bend of the Logan River was referred to as the 'German Pocket,' a somewhat confusing term as there were various German Pockets in Queensland, including one farther down the Logan. For purposes of this thesis it is convenient to refer to the area at all times as 'Bethania.' The area originally settled by the Germans is within the present Bethania, and all the rest of the present Bethania was later taken over by Germans from English and Irish settlers. Germans also acquired land from English and Irish settlers in and around Waterford and farther upstream, and across the river in Loganholme after the land of the cotton plantation was subdivided. -
Migration and Its Effect on Australia
GEOGRAPHY MIGRATION AND ITS EFFECT ON AUSTRALIA Target Group: Year 8 Australian Curriculum Reference: Geography + The reasons for and effects of international migration in Australia (ACHGK058). + Identifying and explaining the main types and patterns of international migration, for example permanent migration, temporary labour migration, student migration, forced migration (including refugees) and family reunion. LESSON SUMMARY This lesson looks at forced migrations to Australia (refugees) and the rise of volunteer organisations that have assisted them. LESSON CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY + Students look at Worksheet 1 (fact sheet: More Than 65 Years of Post-war Migration). + Teacher guides class discussion to develop a list of the significant world events that have resulted in migration to Australia. Teacher identifies that some of these migrants were refugees and explains what being a refugee means, using the following definition as a basis for discussion (text from UNHCR website). The 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is the key legal document that defines who is a refugee, their rights and the legal obligations of State parties. The 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees removed geographical and temporal restrictions from the Convention. Accordingly, the term “refugee” applies to any person who: “…owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.” + Students research where people came from to Australia as a result of the events described in Worksheet 1, and from the list of events drawn up by the class. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia: Problems and Potentials Muzafar Ali Independent Researcher Linda Briskman Swinburne Institute for Social Research Lucy Fiske University of Technology Sydney Abstract Asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia increasingly experience protracted waiting times for permanent settlement in other countries. They have few, if any, legal rights, coupled with extremely limited financial resources and no access to government provided services. In response to the prospect of living for many years in this difficult and liminal space, a small community of refugees in the West Java town of Cisarua has built relationships, skills and confidence among themselves and with host Indonesians to respond to identified needs. This paper outlines the main political and policy frameworks affecting the lives of refugees in Indonesia and then draws on research interviews and participant observation to illustrate the resilience and agency utilised by the community to mitigate uncertain futures. The major focus is on education for asylum seeker/refugee children. Introduction Increasingly protracted situations confront forced migrants in Indonesia. This cohort includes asylum seekers (awaiting determination of their refugee status) and those who have been granted asylum (refugees) who are awaiting third country resettlement1. The time of waiting can extend for several years and is marked by marginality – of attaining a level of immediate safety, but with no realisable rights beyond an assurance of non-deportation. Asylum seekers 1 At times the terms asylum seeker and refugee are used interchangeably in this paper, to reflect the literature and common usage. Linda Briskman, Faculty of Health, Arts & Design, School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology. -
New Immigrants Improving Productivity in Australian Agriculture
New Immigrants Improving Productivity in Australian Agriculture By Professor Jock Collins (UTS Business School), Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko (CSU) and Dr Devaki Monani (ACU) New Immigrants Improving Productivity in Australian Agriculture by Professor Jock Collins (UTS Business School), Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko (CSU) and Dr Devaki Monani (ACU) September 2016 RIRDC Publication No 16/027 RIRDC Project No PRJ-007578 © 2016 Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-74254-873-9 ISSN 1440-6845 New Immigrants Improving Productivity in Australian Agriculture Publication No. 16/027 Project No. PRJ-007578 The information contained in this publication is intended for general use to assist public knowledge and discussion and to help improve the development of sustainable regions. You must not rely on any information contained in this publication without taking specialist advice relevant to your particular circumstances. While reasonable care has been taken in preparing this publication to ensure that information is true and correct, the CommonWealth of Australia gives no assurance as to the accuracy of any information in this publication. The Commonwealth of Australia, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), the authors or contributors expressly disclaim, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any act or omission, or for any consequences of any such act or omission, made in reliance on the contents of this publication, Whether or not caused by any negligence on the part of the Commonwealth of Australia, RIRDC, the authors or contributors. The Commonwealth of Australia does not necessarily endorse the views in this publication. -
The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration Into Australia
The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia Editors: Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh and Jim Walmsley http://www.une.edu.au/arts/CARSS First released in 2007 ISBN 1 920996 07 9 Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia This work is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non- commercial use or use within your organisation. All other rights are reserved. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the editors, Centre for Applied Research in Social Sciences. ii SOCIAL COSTS AND BENEFITS OF MIGRATION INTO AUSTRALIA Editors Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh and Jim Walmsley Authors Chapter 1: Introduction Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh and Jim Walmsley Chapter 2: Settlement Patterns and Experiences Jim Walmsley, Fran Rolley, Raj Rajaratnan and Alison McIntosh Chapter 3: Human Capital Michael Bittman, Jude Brown, Alison McIntosh, Fran Rolley, Raj Rajaratnam and Jim Walmsley Chapter 4: Social Capital Jim Walmsley, Alison McIntosh, Kerry Carrington, Michael Bittman, Fran Rolley and Raj Rajaratnam Chapter 5: Produced and Financial Capital – Product Diversity Jim Walmsley, Alison McIntosh and Raj Rajaratnam Chapter 6: Natural Capital Jim Walmsley, Alison McIntosh and Raj Rajaratnam Chapter 7: Shepparton Kerry Carrington, Neil Marshall and Ron Reavell Chapter 8: Toowoomba Kerry Carrington and Ron Reavell Chapter 9: South Brisbane Kerry Carrington, Neil Marshall and Ron Reavell Chapter 10: Darebin Kerry -
IMMIGRATION LAW REPORTER Fourth Series/Quatri`Eme S´Erie Recueil De Jurisprudence En Droit De L’Immigration VOLUME 11 (Cited 11 Imm
IMMIGRATION LAW REPORTER Fourth Series/Quatri`eme s´erie Recueil de jurisprudence en droit de l’immigration VOLUME 11 (Cited 11 Imm. L.R. (4th)) EDITORS-IN-CHIEF/REDACTEURS´ EN CHEF Cecil L. Rotenberg, Q.C. Mario D. Bellissimo, LL.B. Barrister & Solicitor Ormston, Bellissimo, Rotenberg Don Mills, Ontario Toronto, Ontario Certified Specialist Certified Specialist ASSOCIATE EDITOR/REDACTEUR´ ADJOINT Randolph Hahn, D.PHIL.(OXON), LL.B. Guberman, Garson Toronto, Ontario Certified Specialist CARSWELL EDITORIAL STAFF/REDACTION´ DE CARSWELL Cheryl L. McPherson, B.A.(HONS.) Director, Primary Content Operations Directrice des activit´es li´ees au contenu principal Graham B. Peddie, LL.B. Product Development Manager Sharon Yale, LL.B., M.A. Jennifer Weinberger, B.A.(HONS.), Supervisor, Legal Writing J.D. Supervisor, Legal Writing Peter Bondy, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Heather Stone, B.A., LL.B. Lead Legal Writer Lead Legal Writer Rachel Bernstein, B.A.(HONS.), J.D. Peggy Gibbons, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Legal Writer Senior Legal Writer Jim Fitch, B.A., LL.B. Stephanie Hanna, B.A., M.A., LL.B. Senior Legal Writer Senior Legal Writer Mark Koskie, B.A.(HONS.), M.A., LL.B. Nicole Ross, B.A., LL.B. Legal Writer Legal Writer Amanda Stewart, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Martin-Fran¸cois Parent, LL.B., Senior Legal Writer LL.M., DEA (PARIS II) Bilingual Legal Writer Erin McIntosh, B.A.(HONS.) Content Editor IMMIGRATION LAW REPORTER, a national series of topical law reports, Recueil de jurisprudence en droit de l’immigration, une s´erie nationale de is published twelve times per year. -
EWISH Vo1ce HERALD
- ,- The 1EWISH Vo1CE HERALD /'f) ,~X{b1)1 {\ ~ SERVING RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS V C> :,I 18 Nisan 5773 March 29, 2013 Obama gains political capital President asserts that political leaders require a push BY RON KAMPEAS The question now is whether Obama has the means or the WASHINGTON (JTA) - For will to push the Palestinians a trip that U.S. officials had and Israelis back to the nego cautioned was not about get tiating table. ting "deliverables," President U.S. Secretary of State John Obama's apparent success Kerry, who stayed behind during his Middle East trip to follow up with Israeli at getting Israel and Turkey Prime Minister Benjamin to reconcile has raised some Netanyahu's team on what hopes for a breakthrough on happens next, made clear another front: Israeli-Pales tinian negotiations. GAINING I 32 Survivors' testimony Rick Recht 'rocks' in concert. New technology captures memories BY EDMON J. RODMAN In the offices of the Univer Rock star Rick Recht to perform sity of Southern California's LOS ANGELES (JTA) - In a Institute for Creative Technol dark glass building here, Ho ogies, Gutter - who, as a teen in free concert locaust survivor Pinchas Gut ager - had survived Majdanek, ter shows that his memory is Alliance hosts a Jewish rock star'for audiences ofall ages the German Nazi concentra cr ystal clear and his voice is tion camp on the outskirts of BY KARA MARZIALI Recht, who has been compared to James Taylor strong. His responses seem a Lublin, Poland, sounds and [email protected] for his soulfulness and folksy flavor and Bono for bit delayed - not that different looks very much alive. -
Fundamental Change in Skilled Worker Selection Here
Reproduced by permission of Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. Subscriptions to ImmQuest are available at 416.609.3800 (Toronto and Volume 13, Issue 3 International); 1.800.387.5164 (Toll Free Canada March 2017 and United States); www.carswell.com “Qui bene interrogat bene docet” “He who questions well teaches well” Editor-in-chief: Mario D. Bellissimo C.S. Fundamental Change in INSIDE Skilled Worker Selection Focus—Selecting Skilled Workers Cobus Kriek, RCIC1 The Federal Government’s most recent policy manoeuver has quietly and fundamentally shifted the unsteady balance between • Fundamental Change in Skilled Worker its posited concept of an immigrant’s human capital value and Selection. 1 Canadian industry’s access to a vital immigrant labour source. — Cobus Kriek, RCIC On 12 November 2016, Ministerial Instructions were published Case Tracker: Cases You Should Know! . 6 2 • in the Gazette, which effected a simple reduction in points — Mario D. Bellissimo, C.S. awarded for “arranged employment” of Express Entry applicants, while simultaneously constituting one of the biggest changes to skilled immigration in decades. This article will consider the change (brought into force on 19 November 2016) which effected the reduction in points awarded in the Express Entry system3 for “arranged employment”4 from 600 points to 50 points out of a total score of 1200 points (‘the November AE change’). It will achieve this by analysing: the immediate impact of the November AE change, the lack of ratio- nal and accountability of the change, as well as placing the change in the historical context of Canadian Immigration law. 1 This is part 1 of a two-part article. -
Immigration, Visas and Family Violence
Immigration, visas and family violence The ASPIRE Project conducted research in Tasmania This fact sheet summarises the ASPIRE Project findings and Victoria in 2015-2016 with immigrant and refugee about the impact of immigration policy and visa status women, men, community groups and different service on women’s experiences of family violence. The providers. The project explored issues related to information includes some quotes from women who family violence against immigrant and refugee women participated in the project. There are contact details and their children. For more information visit: on the next page about where to get help for family www.anrows.org.au violence. Immigration to Australia Issues caused by visa status Australia is one of the most culturally diverse Most immigrants to Australia generally start out on countries in the world. Almost half of the Australian temporary visas for a few years before they become population (46%) has a direct family link to the permanent residents or citizens. migration program. Immigration is an important part of Australia’s history, identity and growing economy. The ASPIRE Project found that conditions on temporary visas have serious impacts for the safety of Like all immigrants, the women who participated in immigrant women experiencing family violence. the ASPIRE Project came to Australia through different Temporary visas holders face barriers to getting help avenues and for many reasons including as: because these visas have various conditions that can restrict access to income support, public housing, students or partners of students healthcare, and childcare services. These types of skilled, professional workers services are often essential for the ongoing safety of families looking for better opportunities, including victims of family violence. -
Immigration and Populism in Canada, Australia, and the United States
CDDRL WORKING PAPERS JULY 2019 IMMIGRATION AND POPULISM IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND THE UNITED STATES Francis Fukuyama Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Naz Gocek Naz Gocek, a Canadian citizen, is currently a student at Stanford and member of the Honors Program at CDDRL. This study was made possible through the generous funding of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. About CDDRL Since 2002, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University has collaborated widely with academics, policymakers and practitioners around the world to advance knowledge about the conditions for and interactions among democracy, broad-based economic development, human rights, and the rule of law. The mission of CDDRL is to understand how countries can overcome poverty, instability, and abusive rule to become prosperous, just, democratic, and well-governed states. This concern for the overall trajectory of national development—and for the intricate links among the economic, political, legal, social, and health dimensions of development—sets CDDRL apart from other research centers. Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Stanford University Encina Hall 616 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-6055 Voice: 650-723-4610 Fax: 650-724-2996 Website: http://cddrl.stanford.edu/ - 1 - IMMIGRATION AND POPULISM IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND THE UNITED STATES Francis Fukuyama and Naz Gocek1 1 Francis Fukuyama is Mosbacher Director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). -
1080 Canada Year Book 1976-77
1080 Canada Year Book 1976-77 criminal law was tougher than that of most other John Diefenbaker turned 80, with celebrations in Western countries and that few countries made Ottawa and Saskatoon, Sept. 22, Federal energy such extensive use of prison, Aug. 22, Canada's officials warned that a devetoping coal shortage premiers declared their readiness to discuss wage would likely last at least a decade before new mines and price controls and called for an Immediate could produce enough to meet growing demands. federal-provincial conference to consider cost- Sept. 24, The federal government was considering shared programs, Aug. 24, Premier Robert tough new measures to control Illegal Immigration, Bourassa said that any new Canadian constitution Immigration Minister Robert Andras said. Sepl. 25, would have to give Quebec final say over culture, Transport Minister Jean Marchand announced that language, communications and immigration before the federal government had halted development of his government would accept it, Aug. 25, Canada the new Toronto international airport at Pickering, assured the UN it would stand by its commitment Ont. Sept. 26, Prime Minister Trudeau shuffied six to hold the Habitat conference on housing and senior ministers and added two backbenchers to urban life In Vancouver in the summer of 1976 and the federal Cabinet, Jack (Bud) Cullen and Marcel that the PLO, with UN observer status, would be Lessard, A controversy over the application of permitted to attend, Aug. 26, Industry, Trade and Quebec's Official Languages Act led to the sudden Commerce Minister Alastair Gillespie said that resignation of Quebec Education Minister Jerome high wage demands could kill Canada's com Choquette, Sept.