Australian and Others

Migrants Drive Rise In Degrees

Migrants drive rise in degrees By Andrew Trounson The Australian, December 1, 2009 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/migrants-drive-rise-in-degrees/story-e6frgcjx-1225805923513 New statistics suggest Australia is closer than expected to the federal government's target of 40 per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds with bachelor degrees by 2025. … Continue reading

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Populate and Perish, Warns Labor MP

Populate and perish, warns Labor MP By Ashley Hall for AM AM | abc.net.au/am November 30, 2009 A Federal Labor MP says the Government's push to reduce the size of Australia's environmental footprint is not being helped by its population … Continue reading

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Wealthy Immigrants Will Be Granted Residency To NZ Almost Immediately

Wealthy immigrants will be granted residency to New Zealand almost immediately under new business migration laws. The Radio New Zealand News, November 30, 2009 http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/11/30/1245d4ac48ce The Entrepreneur Plus immigration category came into effect on 30 November, offering a fast-track to … Continue reading

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Brits Flock To Start A New Life In Australia

Brits flock to start a new life in Australia The Australian Associated Press, November 27, 2009 http://www.smh.com.au/world/brits-flock-to-start-a-new-life-in-australia-20091127-jv0k.html The number of people leaving Britain has soared to a record high, with Australia the top country of choice to set up home, … Continue reading

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A Remote Island Seeks A Boom Without A Bust

A Remote Island Seeks a Boom Without a Bust By Norimitsu Onishi The New York Times, November 27, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/world/asia/27island.html Christmas Island — ''The good times are back on Christmas Island,'' said Trish O'Donnell, this island's sole real estate agent. … Continue reading

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More Overseas Migrants Heading To Queensland

More overseas migrants heading to Queensland By Cosima Marriner The Sydney Morning Herald, November 26, 2009 http://www.smh.com.au/national/more-overseas-migrants-heading-to-queensland-20091125-jrwy.html Immigrants have displaced southerners as Queensland's biggest source of new arrivals. One-fifth of all migrants now settle in Queensland. The Queensland Premier, Anna … Continue reading

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Share Asylum Burden, Indonesians Plead

Share asylum burden, Indonesians plead TOM ALLARD AND KARUNI ROMPIES JAKARTA The Sydney Morning Herald November 21, 2009 INDONESIA has begun negotiating a new arrangement to handle asylum seekers with the Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called … Continue reading

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Flannery Calls For Population Inquiry

Flannery calls for population inquiry By Tony Eastley for AM ABC.net.au/am Posted Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:05am AEDT Updated Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:22am AEDT Professor Flannery says no-one has any real idea of the environmental effects of population growth. … Continue reading

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Desperate Overseas Students Paying $100K For Visas

Desperate overseas students paying $100K for visas By Peter Michael The Courier-Mail November 20, 2009 12:01am DESPERATE overseas students are allegedly paying bribes of up to $100,000 to Queensland businesses to illegally obtain permanent residency visas. Authorities have launched a … Continue reading

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Perish The Thought That We Can Handle A Bigger Population

Perish the thought that we can handle a bigger population BOB CARR Sydney Morning Herald November 19, 2009 In the sprawling Austrian classic “The Man Without Qualities” by Robert Musil, famed for its unreadability, the anti-hero, Ulrich, reads in a … Continue reading

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Australia Expected To Resettle Asylum Seekers

Australia expected to resettle asylum seekers By Geoff Thompson for AM and staff AM ABC.net.au/am Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:22am AEDT Updated Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:15am AEDT After four weeks off the coast of Indonesia, the Customs ship … Continue reading

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Indonesia Draws Up Plan To Force Sri Lankans Home

Indonesia draws up plan to force Sri Lankans home TOM ALLARD Sydney Morning Herald November 16, 2009 JAKARTA: Indonesia is planning to deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers at Merak, including ''Alex'', the English-speaking spokesman for the group that has spent … Continue reading

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Irishman Fined, Deported Over Visa Scam

Irishman fined, deported over visa scam by Pdraig Collins The Irish Echo Posted on 16 November 2009 AN Irishman was recently fined $1,400 and expelled from Australia after being convicted of immigration fraud. The confirmation from the Department of Immigration … Continue reading

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Rudd Denies Special Deal On Asylum

Rudd denies special deal on asylum TOM ALLARD, TANJUNG PINANG AND YUKO NARUSHIMA, CANBERRA The Age November 14, 2009 Asylum-seeker breakthrough Making news today: signs of a breakthrough in the Sri-Lankan asylum-seeker stand-off. Video feedback Video settings AUSTRALIAN officials halved … Continue reading

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Refugee Offer ‘Act Of Weakness’

Refugee offer 'act of weakness' YUKO NARUSHIMA, CANBERRA AND TOM ALLARD, TANJUNG PINANG The Age November 13, 2009 AN OFFER to resettle refugeees on the Oceanic Viking within a set time frame was an ''act of weakness'', Opposition Leader Malcolm … Continue reading

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Australia/Sri Lanka : Untangling The Knotty Issue Of Human Smuggling

AUSTRALIA/SRI LANKA: Untangling the Knotty Issue of Human Smuggling By Amantha Perera IPS NEWS COLOMBO, Nov 13 (IPS) – It is a story that spans three islands, across the breadth of the Indian Ocean. That is, of hundreds of boat … Continue reading

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Govt MPs At Odds Over Population Growth

Govt MPs at odds over population growth PETER VENESS The Age November 13, 2009 AAP A row has erupted inside the government over booming population growth forecasts. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner on Friday suggested population density needed to rise strongly, … Continue reading

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Party Room Rocks Turnbull Boat Plan

Party room rocks Turnbull boat plan YUKO NARUSHIMA IMMIGRATION CORRESPONDENT Brisbane Times November 13, 2009 Landfall at last … some of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers at the Indonesian detention centre at Tanjung Pinjang last night. Photo: Yuli Seperi THE … Continue reading

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Rudd’s New Sri Lankan Solution

Rudd's new Sri Lankan 'solution' MATT WADE, COLOMBO The Age November 12, 2009 THE Rudd Government is considering allowing more displaced Sri Lankans to emigrate to Australia legally in a bid to reduce the incentive for them to turn up … Continue reading

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MP Kelvin Thomson Wants To Stop New Zealand Migration To Australia

MP Kelvin Thomson wants to stop New Zealand migration to Australia By John Masanauskas Herald Sun November 12, 2009 12:01am NEW Zealand migration to Australia would be slashed under a federal Labor MP's plan to curb our population growth. Outspoken … Continue reading

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