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  Owen Harris Monday, 11 November 2019

  That should read "if you can afford".
  Further to my comment, I support SS's right to offer services for a fee. He's offering his thoughts. Only the market should dictate whether his services are worth the money. Instead of kicking each other we should be working together to stop the incessant shrinking of our business.
  How many of you are ready for the large law firms to eat your lunch with the de-regulation? Every time the government adds a year to work experience post-study requirements they kill our business. changing "harm" to "significant harm" on protection visas. There are million examples of the govt killing our industry. how about limiting the number of resources to process existing visa applications? We should be focussing on this. Not giving others who offer something extra for a fee a hard time.

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  S Lagun Monday, 11 November 2019

  Mark takes pot shots at anyone who has a view that is not in support of his mate, SS.
  The best part about this is that everyone is entitled to an opinion.
  I agree with Owen. I also think Migration Alliance news is pretty up to date. Plus its free -unlike SS leading news of the world.

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  Mark N Tuesday, 12 November 2019

  Good points, Owen - just wait until the plan, being pushed hard by the lawyers for some time now, to require some RMAs to be supervised and to limit what they can and cannot do, is enacted. It is astounding that this industry is being picked apart and dismantled, piece by piece, and there is hardly any pushback from the "peak bodies" to these fundamental, broadside attacks on our industry, primarily from lawyers and the government. Instead, SS gets picked on for daring to offer a premium news service while industry "leaders" spend their time complaining about competition from SS and launching major industry-saving initiatives such as ..... a discount card [cue the crickets]. Those who want to see the RMA industry dismantled or reduced to a shadow of its former self must be smiling today.

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  paywall sceptic Wednesday, 13 November 2019

  I hope the discount card from our peak body covers daily necessities like fast food and Uber rides. That'll be something to look forward to!

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  Free Rider Monday, 20 April 2020

  To the subscribers of the industry's leading newsletter: has there been any recent updates? I'm wondering if it's silly to subscribe now when times are this hard.

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  Mark N Wednesday, 22 April 2020

  Good question, Free Rider (are you even an RMA? Why hide behind a nickname?). If you've got the time to read all those court cases and write up the summaries yourself, maybe a subscription is not for you. To me, given any of the paywall-protected industry news services (Migration Law Updates, MIA membership news, Migration Messenger), it's all about time - for me, it's worth it if I can use the case information in the work I'm doing, because I simply don't have the time to stay on top of the stream of cases coming out of the courts and identify the ones that are important and break new ground / establish new precedent.
  
  Frankly, I think the migration industry is in deep trouble at this point given the likelihood the travel ban may remain in place for many months to come, perhaps in some form into next year. We as an industry will need to find ways to work and maintain our businesses within the current political framework - and speaking of poltiics, you have to wonder what the political appetite for bringing skilled migrants into the country will be as long as there are large numbers of unemployed Australians. For certain jobs - essential services, etc - it's a given, but for non-essential services it's a real questions.
  
  Furthermore, consider the AAT, already severely backlogged prior to the COVID-19 crisis, no doubt getting even more backlogged now that they are progressing on cases so slowly due to not being able to conduct live in-person hearings. Will this be the last straw that pushes a major restructuring of the AAT to something like the IAA? The Callinan report from last year discusses some potentially massive changes to the AAT.
  
  Maybe instead of worrying about the little issues (newsletter subscriptions) we should be looking together as an industry at the major issues that all RMAs are and will be facing in the coming months. We face some sobering circumstances...

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