Home Affairs Publishes first round of SkillSelect Invitations for FY 18/19

The Department of Home Affairs has published their first round of skill select invitations for the new financial year and the figures are looking bleak. The first round of invitations was sent on 11 July 2018 to potential applicants. As reported previously, Home Affairs confirmed that invitation rounds will be issued once per month however, this will not impact the number of invitation issued. The July figures seem to contradict the following statement issued via skill select:
Posted on: 25/07/2018 at 00:01
SkillSelect invitation rounds for Skilled - Independent (subclass 189) and Skilled - Regional Provisional (subclass 489) will occur once each month, on the 11th day of each month, effective 11 August 2018. There is no change to the overall number of invitations provided each month.
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