Since 1945, Australia has played a major role in providing protection and opportunities for refugees – both by resettling people in need from overseas, and by enabling people seeking asylum to apply for protection in Australia. Providing a welcoming, secure and respectful environment for refugees results in greater social and economic benefits for everyone and a stronger, more cohesive Australia. 

Yet, many of Australia’s current refugee policies are out of step with community values of fairness and decency, fall short of Australia’s international obligations, and are not contributing to a sustainable, humane response to refugees globally.

Source: Kaldor-Centre-Principles-for-Australian-Refugee-Policy-UNSW.pdf

A new program to tackle labour shortages in Victoria’s Great South Coast region has been officially  launched today in Warrnambool. 

The Great South Coast Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) provides an opportunity for  regional employers to be endorsed to hire overseas workers for roles that cannot be filled by  Australian residents. 

The DAMA is an Australian Government initiative with the Great South Coast DAMA a first for  Victoria and the first to be driven by Local Government. 

The State of Victoria has sent an email to their subscribers today with the following message, which is fairly self-explanatory:

The following is today's AAT Bulletin for the 11 June 2019.    Citizenship decisions are on page 5.  Migration decisions are on page 7.  

Jan Redfern from the AAT MRD will be presenting at the MIGRATION 2019 Conference on 15 November in Sydney.  For more information please click here.

AAT-Bulletin-11-June-2019.pdf

A new program to tackle labour shortages in Victoria’s Great South Coast region has been officially launched today in Warrnambool.

The Great South Coast Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) provides an opportunity for regional employers to be endorsed to hire overseas workers for roles that cannot be filled by Australian residents.

The DAMA is an Australian Government initiative with the Great South Coast DAMA a first for Victoria and the first to be driven by Local Government.

Member for Wannon, Dan Tehan said “the DAMA is designed to support local businesses by helping them fill key roles.