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Two Hundred And Fifty Tongans To Migrate To New Zealand

Two Hundred and Fifty Tongans to migrate to New Zealand TongaNow 28/06/2007 12:02:51 p.m. Pacific Access Category (PAC) has seen a noticeable increase in applications for the ballot for permanent residency in New Zealand which was drawn yesterday, June 27, … Continue reading

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Australia To Establish Migrant Assessment Centre In India

Australia to establish migrant assessment centre in India The Times of India 27 Jun 2007, 2009 hrs IST, IANS SYDNEY: If you have the right skills and qualifications, you could make Australia home sooner than ever. The government here is … Continue reading

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Government To Interview Nauru Detainees

Government to interview Nauru detainees Peter Gregory The Age (Melbourne) June 27, 2007 – 12:33PM Immigration officers will next month interview seven Burmese asylum seekers detained in Nauru, a High Court judge has been told. The men, who were dropped … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrants May Have Exploited Lax ID Screening

Illegal immigrants may have exploited lax ID screening 5:00AM Wednesday June 27, 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald By Claire Trevett Immigrants may have slipped into New Zealand illegally because of gaps in systems for discovering identity fraud, the Government has … Continue reading

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Swimmers Seek Asylum

Swimmers seek asylum Dewi Cooke The Age (Melbourne) June 27, 2007 SEVEN African swimmers who disappeared after the FINA World Swimming Championships in Melbourne have applied for asylum in Australia. Three competitors and one official from Burundi, two swimmers from … Continue reading

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Fast Track For Skilled Immigrants

Fast track for skilled migrants Mark Davis Political Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald June 26, 2007 SKILLED workers migrating to Australia will be fast-tracked under a Federal Government plan to set up skills assessment centres in several countries. The Government … Continue reading

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Jobs Prove Fatal For Visa Holders

Jobs prove fatal for visa holders Philip Cornford The Sydney Morning Herald June 25, 2007 TWO Filipinos and one Chinese man in Australia on controversial 457 “guest worker” visas have been killed in work accidents in the past month, a … Continue reading

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CFMEU Politicising Visa Deaths: Andrews

CFMEU politicising visa deaths: Andrews The Age (Melbourne) June 25, 2007 – 3:19PM Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has accused a major union of using the deaths of three foreign visa workers for political advantage. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy … Continue reading

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Foreign Workers Scheme Is Slavery, Says U.S.

Foreign workers scheme is slavery, says US Craig Skehan and Anne Davies June 14, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald A US State Department suggestion that conditions for some foreign workers in Australia under a special visa scheme constituted “slavery” has been … Continue reading

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Plea To Take In Chinese Muslims

Plea to take in Chinese Muslims Sarah Smiles The Age (Melbourne) June 13, 2007 AUSTRALIA has been asked to grant asylum to a group of Chinese Muslim men who have been released from detention at Guantanamo Bay, amid fears that … Continue reading

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Number Of Visas For IT Professionals In Australia Skyrockets

Number of visas for IT professionals in Australia skyrockets WorkPermit.com 12 June 2007 Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) granted a record number of temporary employment visas for IT professionals during the nine month's prior to 31 March 2007. … Continue reading

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"Sex Slave" Brothel Closed

'Sex slave' brothel closed By Steve Butcher and Jamie Berry The Age (Melbourne) June 7, 2007 A LEGAL Melbourne brothel central to sex slavery charges laid this week following raids by police and immigration investigators has been shut after the … Continue reading

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Deportation Rules Don’t Work–New Zealand First

Deportation rules don't work – NZ First 1:25PM Wednesday June 06, 2007 The New Zealand Herald New Zealand First says deportation laws are not working with nearly 40 per cent of people detained under immigration laws being held because they … Continue reading

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New Zealand Targets Skilled Immigrants

NZ targets skilled migrants Homes Worldwide Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100 Written by: Kate Collyns To compete with Australia's migrant recruitment policies, New Zealand has announced some tweaks to its Skilled Migrant Category, hoping to ensure that “quality” workers … Continue reading

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Australian Population To Hit 21 Million

Australian population to hit 21 million By Stephen Spencer Political Editor Macquarie National News Tuesday, 05 June 2007 | Updated: 12:55 Australia's population will top 21,000,000 later this month, as the baby boom and soaring immigration show no sign of … Continue reading

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PM Wants To Ban Entry To People With HIV

PM wants to ban entry to people with HIV Ben Doherty The Age (Melbourne) June 2, 2007 HIV-POSITIVE people should be banned from entering Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday, ignoring the advice of his health and immigration ministers … Continue reading

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Politicians Spark New Zealand Immigration Row

Politicians spark NZ immigration row The Kiwi Labour government refute suggestions by the National Party that New Zealanders are being replaced by immigrants, as rhetoric increases before the 2008 elections. The Homes Worldwide, June 1, 2007 Labour's Immigration Minister, David … Continue reading

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500 Visa Worker "Abuse Cases" Probed

500 visa worker 'abuse cases' probed The Sydney Morning Herald June 1, 2007 – 2:24PM Five hundred cases of the alleged exploitation of temporary visa workers have been investigated by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIaC) in the past … Continue reading

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Anti-Corruption Reporter Targeted In PNG

Anti-corruption reporter targeted in PNG The Age (Melbourne) June 1, 2007 – 5:44PM A journalist who penned reports accusing high-ranking PNG government officials of corruption has narrowly escaped a gang who invaded her home armed with a hand grenade, guns … Continue reading

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Africans Using PNG (Papua New Guinea) To Get To Australia

Africans 'using PNG' to get to Australia June 1, 2007 – 4:34PM Three African men detained in Papua New Guinea after illegally crossing the border from Indonesia's Papua Province have told police they were on their way to seek asylum … Continue reading

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