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Jerry-Gomez

Jerry-Gomez

Jerry Gomez is the Editor at Migration Alliance as well as an experienced RMA (MARN 0854080) and Lawyer practicing in Immigration Law, Business Law and Property Law.

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More families from China are looking to enrol their young children in Australian schools in order to better their English and education from an earlier age, according to a report on the ABC.

The ‘go early strategy’ saw new enrolments of Chinese teenagers in Australian public and private schools hit 4,300 last year. The Australian Trade Commission said it was a rise of about 20 per cent on the previous year's new enrolments.

The total number of enrolments of Chinese school students rose to 8,386 in 2014, up from 7,447 in 2013.

Dr Minglu Chen, a lecturer at the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre, told the ABC that families were looking for better English education and a pathway to top Australian universities for their children.

"This is what we could expect from China's growing economy, which is at the moment is the second largest economy in the world, which actually also has a growing middle class," Dr Chen said.

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Desperate to fix his 'grotesque abuse' of an Indian cook recruited from a small village in India, the restaurant owner of Mand’s Indian Restaurant falsified time records, pay slips and information provided to the tax office and Immigration Department.

Federal Circuit Judge Rolf Driver however rubbished the information provided by Divye Kumar Trivedi and found instead that Trivedi took away the cook’s passport and told him that he could not leave Australia until he repaid a debt of $7000.

Justice Driver found that Trivedi, who owned the Indian restaurant in Eastwood in Sydney’s northwest, had ‘built a façade upon sham documents to deceive the Department of Immigration and the ATO and attempted to deceive this court’, according to a report in The Australian.

Justice Driver accepted that the cook, Mr Dulo Ram, couldn’t speak English, had worked for 16 months, from August 2007 to December 2008, with only one day off on Christmas Day, and that he had lived in the restaurant storeroom and washed in the kitchen using buckets of hot water.

“When the Department of Immigration eventually investigated his circumstances, its officials were fobbed off with lies and fabricated documents” said the judge.

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Hundreds of foreign workers employed in Australia’s $200 billion offshore oil and gas sector have had their work arrangements deemed invalid by the Federal Court in a ruling delivered yesterday.

In 2014, the Assistant Minister for Immigration, Senator Michaelia Cash changed visa regulations to override the Senate and to make it easier to employ overseas workers on offshore oil and gas projects. Her ministerial directions were quickly challenged by the Maritime Union who having lost in their first court action, appealed to the Federal Court which, yesterday, overturned the initial ruling.

A three-judge panel has allowed the appeal and agreed that the legislation could not be used in the way that it had been.

It said the determination by Assistant Immigration Minister Michaelia Cash "is not authorised ... and is invalid."

The judgment read:

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If policy tweaks don’t get in the way, foreign student numbers are expected to continue in an upward spiral given that the Australian dollar is expected to remain low and the Indian government is now aggressively promoting the education of its masses.

Writing in The Australian today, Trade Minister Andrew Robb has stressed that India is set to become the main source of overseas student enrolments for Australia. He says the market potential of India, where the government has committed to train half a billion of its citizens by 2022, is enormous.

“We can expect from India a repeat of what we have seen from China. India is our top vocational education and training market and the demand over the next decade will be phenomenal,” noted Mr Robb.

Overall, Federal government figures show that student enrolments rose 10 per cent last year, reversing a dive that cost universities and colleges more than one-third of their overseas students.

English language colleges had their best year in 2013-14, with numbers swelling 27 per cent. And while the growth has stabilised to a more manageable 9 per cent, many students are proceeding to further study in vocational or higher education — suggesting big surges ahead for these sectors.

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Labour and the Greens have initiated a broader Senate inquiry to investigate the use of temporary working visas and the reported abuse and exploitation of foreign workers, just days after the conclusion of a similar inquiry commissioned by the federal government, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The new inquiry follows just days after Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Michaelia Cash, announced that the government will take-up most of the recommendations of an enquiry concluded last month on the 457 visa program.

The new inquiry is expected to have broader terms of reference. ACTU president Ged Kearney said the inquiry would also look at whether employers are genuinely trying to hire Australian workers first. "Australia's migration program should not be at the beck and call of big business" he said.

Greens deputy leader and workplace relations spokesperson Adam Bandt said that "with rising unemployment and a mining investment boom coming off the boil, now is the time to ask whether the current working visa system strikes the right balance".

The Australian Industry Group said the new inquiry was "a waste of Senate time and resources

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