Migration

MELBOURNE and Brisbane have accommodated more new residents, and at a faster rate, than Sydney since 2001 — leaving room for the nation’s largest city to take a greater share of Australia’s population increase over coming decades. Article Link:

Want to know more about immigration to Australia? this is the website to visit. Article Link: http://www.embraceaustralia.com/australia-immigration-population-debate-6807-6807.htm

The number (of backpacker visas) issued to Irish people aged 18 to 30 rose by one-third, to 22,788 in the year to June 30th last, from 17,120 the previous year. Many Irish people will be watching the outcome of Australia’s election later this year very closely. Article Link:

THE key to Australia’s new population debate is the transformation of our immigration program during the past decade into a more flexible, globalised and far larger intake that has shattered the certitudes of the old system. Article Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-biggest-game-in-town/story-e6frg6zo-1225852009335

ANOTHER boat on the way, another policy failure,\ is how deputy prime minister Julia Gillard characterised the flow of people smugglers’ vessels when she was in Opposition on April 23, 2003. Seven years later, Labor has been in office for two-and-a-half years, and the spate of unlawful boat arrivals has mounted to more than 105

The migration debate being played out with a view to reducing the influx of foreigners is a sure sign of the parochial and small-minded nature of political and social discourse. Article Link:

HE HAS been spruiking the idea for days, but opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison now admits cutting the migration intake is not Coalition policy. Article Link: