Australia is slowly but surely waking up to the reality of “Asianization”. Some 84% of the population now accept that “multiculturalism is a good thing and benefitted Australia”. (Source: Scanlon Foundation Survey 2013).

The fear and resistance seen in the 1960s and 1970s with resurrections attempted by failed political parties of the recent past, seem to have all but faded as futile popularity exercises with only an occasional whimper emerging now and again in the form of the ‘big Australia’ question.

Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner writes that, “Debates about Asian immigration reflect a contest over Australian national identity. For some, immigration has meant a repudiation of Australia’s British cultural heritage — a rejection of all that was, in their eyes, traditionally Australian. For such people, Asia — to be more precise, immigration from Asia in significant numbers — was a source of cultural corruption or degradation.

“And yet, for all of its pungency, the rhetoric about multiculturalism’s imminent failure hasn’t been proven correct. Australian multiculturalism has endured. In last year’s Scanlon Foundation survey on social cohesion, 84 percent of respondents agreed that multiculturalism is a good thing and benefited Australia.”

According to the Commissioner, nearly 50 percent of our population were either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas. It is estimated that close to 10 percent of the Australian population have Asian cultural origins or ancestry. Of the top 10 overseas birthplaces of Australians, five are countries in Asia: China, India, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. China and India now represent the two largest source countries for immigrants to Australia.

Of the 4 million people who speak a language other than English at home, close to 1.3 million speak an Asian language — including more than 650,000 who speak Chinese.

NSW’s Deputy Premier, Andrew Stoner announced in Shenzhen over the weekend that NSW’s $5 million SIV requirements will change. Going forward there will be no need to invest 30% or $1.5m in NSW Government Waratah Bonds.

We will provide more details from the NSW government as they become available. In the interim it may be a good time to revisit your clients who are invested in Waratah Bonds. Also a good talking point for those clients looking at getting Victorian sponsorship because they did not like NSW’s 30% mandatory bond requirement.

Linked story: http://migrationalliance.com.au/immigration-daily-news/entry/2014-08-nsw-announces-5-mill-siv-will-change-no-30-investment-and-no-1-5-mil-in-waratah-bonds.html

Despite the efforts of the DIBP Investigations Unit in the last 8 months to disrupt Eddie Kang’s business, Kang is still out there, free to deceive honest people out of their hard earned savings, threaten them, and in many cases ensure they become unlawful.

The damage to the integrity of the migration system by this one individual is immense and his business model has been used by others intent to cashing in on legal loop holes and the DIBP incapable or unwilling to stop them. The harm inflicted upon the victims is immeasurable.

The Sydney Morning Herald exposed the inadequacies of the DIBP in past operations to stop migration fraud and the DIBP claimed this is because it all happened these examples happened under the Labour government.

Sorry Mr. Morrison, that excuse doesn’t wash. The migration fraud is happening on your watch and by all accounts on a more sophisticated organised level designed to stump your investigators.

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I have received a course credit from ANU for the final course of the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law and Practice. This course is about office management, client files, trust accounts, etc, and includes a client interview (just like the PRC).