Australian Immigration Daily News

Over 85% of new information and computer technology (ICT) jobs were filled by foreigners last year, notes a new report by the Australian Computer Society.

The report states that workers from overseas are now needed to address acute shortages of particular ICT skills in the short term, but warns that Australia needs a long-term strategy to deal with the skills shortage.

The report by the ACS estimates that Australia’s ICT workforce grew by 23,000 in the past year. Most of this skills demand was satisfied by foreign workers. Australia took in a net 19,600 foreign workers (including 13,900 on 457 visas) over the period, suggesting as little as 3000 new ICT roles were filled domestically.

Following the Kendall review of the OMARA, DIBP has now foreshadowed adoption of the second limb of the Kendall report recommendations concerning the prohibition on lawyers from being registered as migration agents.

The relevant advice to that effect appears here:

https://www.mara.gov.au/news-and-publications/news/omara-independent-review/

Gee whiz!!!!

There are times when you look at the decisions that are coming out of the Federal courts, and it can just make your head spin!

Well, that was certainly my reaction when I had a look at Austlii today and came across the decision of the Federal Circuit Court in the case of Kaur v Minister for Immigration & Anor (2016) FCCA (11 March 2016).

A survey of almost 4000 people in these four Commonwealth nations, has found that there is massive support for a European Union-style system of free movement between these countries.

Seventy per cent of Australians were in favour of the idea of the ‘migration bloc’ with only one in ten opposed. Support was stronger among Canadians (75 per cent), New Zealanders (82 per cent) and people under the age of 35.

Tim Hewish, author of the report and director of policy and research at the Royal Commonwealth Society, told The Guardian that there was clearly “immense support” from Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders for the freedom to live and work in the UK.

Regulatory reforms are supposed to make life easier, not harder.  Cutting red tape is part of this government's agenda. 

That’s right, isn’t it? 

Will that be the case if “dual regulation” of lawyers is ended, as recommended by the “Kendall Report” concerning the “Independent Review of the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority”?