Keyword "migration program" - List of latest news (28 results)

22/04 ‘Ridiculous’ reason cafe can’t fill $150,000 job

Would you work as a cafe manager for $150,000?

10/04 ‘We need this influx’: Regional towns beg for more migrants — and more houses for them to live in

As Australia’s capitals are squeezed by record population growth, regional towns and cities across the country have one message — bring them here.

09/04 ‘Australian nightmare’: Crisis we can’t ignore

Whether you’re for it or against it, it’s undeniable that by virtually any metric, Australia is in the midst of an unprecedented experiment with mass immigration.

05/04 Dutton’s radical housing crisis plan

Peter Dutton has vowed to slash the number of international students in Australia by 80,000 people in a move designed to ease the housing crisis.

31/03 Dutton’s brutal jab at tradie son

Peter Dutton has joked about charging his 20-year-old son board while speaking to constituents in his outer Brisbane seat of Dickson.

27/03 Shock new poll set to swing election

Australian voters have declared they are worse off after three years of Anthony Albanese’s leadership in a shock new poll that could hold the key to the federal election.

21/02 Peter Dutton proposes constitutional changes to deport migrants engaged in hate crimes

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12/02 ‘Dirty money’: Peter Dutton accused of opening door to Chinese billionaires snapping up luxury homes under Golden Ticket visa plan

Peter Dutton has been accused of opening the backdoor to cashed up Chinese billionaires snapping up Australian real estate again under a plan to bring back the controversial ‘Golden Ticket Visa’.

12/01 ‘Weak’: Peter Dutton’s surprise Rogan moment

Peter Dutton’s call to arms that “weak leaders create hard times” appears to have been inspired by US broadcaster Joe Rogan’s famous podcast that says “soft men create hard times”.

09/04 Anthony Albanese urged to steal New Zealand’s plan to get on top of surging immigration

Australia is being urged to follow the lead of New Zealand in dramatically slashing the country’s migrant intake and tightening rules surrounding sought-after visas.

24/03 ‘2000 a day’: Barefoot Investor Scott Pape hits out at ‘broken’ Australia

Barefoot Investor Scott Pape has weighed in on Australia’s immigration debate, questioning the country’s record migrant intake levels despite a rental crisis gripping the nation.

24/03 Tradie shortage risks housing target

Labor’s ambitious plan to build 1.2 million new homes over the next five years could be stifled by chronic shortages of tradies, a new report has warned.

21/03 Graph exposes $40 billion ‘lie’ driving immigration

Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year.

14/03 ‘We are governed by mongrels’: Driver of housing crisis revealed

Governments have manufactured a crippling crisis that’s led to unprecedented housing pressures, a rising risk of homelessness, and the rapid death of the Great Australian Dream.

12/03 Economist’s answer to Aussie crisis

Australia should offer migrants better English-language training and recognise international qualifications if it wants to boost productivity and tackle critical skills shortages, a new report has recommended.

04/03 ‘Economic disaster’: Graph proves grim fact

Australia is heading for an “economic and humanitarian disaster” with limited new homes for locals and simply nowhere for migrants to live, a leading economist has warned.

12/12 Australia faces impossible birthrate problem

As Australia’s government unveils a new migration strategy to clamp down on increasingly out-of-control population growth, other countries are grappling with the opposite problem.

17/11 Tiny town ‘unsafe’ after fruit picker influx

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14/11 Top economist’s shock migration backflip

A leading economist has weighed into the increasingly heated debate over Australia’s housing crisis, calling for a slowdown in immigration to allow time for supply to catch up with demand.

02/10 ‘Limbo’: Harsh reality facing thousands

Only half of overseas students living in Australia secure work after graduation, scathing new figures have revealed, amid a federal government crackdown on student visa fraud.

20/09 ‘Big issue’: Blow-up over fast-track visa plan

The federal government is planning to further turbocharge immigration with an overhauled visa process for skilled workers that will take days, not months.

25/08 Long commutes driving Aussies to despair

Hours-long daily commutes are contributing to the worst wellbeing for young Australians in two decades, the peak business lobby says.

26/07 Family faces deportation from Australia for being ‘too old’

A British family faces being booted from Australia after eight years because they were deemed “too old” to stay.

23/05 Terrifying trend in Aussie workplaces

Migrant workers are twice as likely as long-term residents to be underpaid, while at least 16 per cent are making less than the minimum wage, a new report has revealed.

12/05 ‘Divisive’: Jim hits back over migration

Jim Chalmers has accused Peter Dutton of playing divisive politics after the Opposition Leader aired concerns about the effect Australia’s short-term migration intake could have on the housing crisis.

09/05 700,000 migrants to raise rent prices

More than 700,000 people are expected to move to Australia by the end of next year, adding to the squeeze on the nation’s already very tight rental market.

01/03 Inside JP’s sham marriage scheme

A Justice of the Peace who arranged a sham marriage for a couple – supplying $100 to witnesses and signing misleading documents to Home Affairs – has paid the ultimate price for his deception.

04/01 Sydney set to lose biggest city status

Melbourne may have suffered a significant pandemic-prompted mass exodus, but new figures show it will become Australia’s largest city within a decade.