Australian Immigration Daily News

The committee recommends that the Senate pass the bill, subject to resolution of the motion to disallow the Migration Amendment (New Skilled Regional Visas) Regulations 2019.

The committee called for submissions, publishing details of the inquiry on its website and contacting a range of relevant organisations. Interested parties were invited to make a submission by 23 September 2019.

Migration Alliance made a submission, as can be seen on page 7, Chapter 2 "Key Issues":

2.3 The Migration Alliance supports the bill and the new skilled regional visas, and submitted that the initiative ‘will help with consistent intake of highly skilled persons into these much needed areas’. 2

The New Skilled Regional Visas (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019 seeks to make consequential amendments to a number of Acts to facilitate access to welfare payments and government services for holders of new skilled regional visas, which would be created through an amendment to Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations).

Source: New-Skilled-Regional-Visas-Consequential-Amendments-Bill-2019-Provisions---Report.pdf