Australian Immigration Daily News

I had the pleasure of attending the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) EGM today and I am pleased to report to the proxies who entrusted me with their vote that each of the four motions were lost. Lost by the MIA.  Won by us.  I have no doubt that the 149 proxies given to me made a real difference in the EGM.

Here are the results:

Results-EGM.pdf

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Amy Ngo, a Vietnamese TOEFL® test-taker and recent graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, will be the featured guest at a live Twitter Q&A on August 31, where she will answer questions about her experience pursuing education and work abroad, and her success on the TOEFL test. 

Amy will be an employee at Deloitte in Australia under a Temporary Graduate visa, Post-Study Work stream, after earning her master’s degree in Professional Accounting from UTS. She also has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Read more of her story in her article, “How Studying Abroad Will Change Your Life.”

The one-hour chat, hosted by US News Education, begins at 13:00 UTC (11 pm AEST/9 pm AWST) on Thursday, August 31.

Update 31 August 2017 at 9:00am: The MIA have issued the following statement in their newsletter dated 25 August 2017:

It has come to our attention that Christopher Levingston, on the Migration Alliance website, has published allegations that the Board of the MIA is under investigation by the Office of the MARA. This publication is an absolutely baseless and malicious fabrication with no truth or fact whatsoever. The MIA and the Board reserve their rights and will seek legal advice on the best action to take going forward.

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