Australian Immigration Daily News

As the Federal Government shapes a budget blueprint to deal with the recession, it's got its eye on luring big foreign companies to our shores. It set up a taskforce with the goal of attracting advanced manufacturing, financial services, and health companies to call Australia home and create jobs. The Acting Immigration Minister is Alan Tudge, and the ABC radio stations have spoken earlier.

Below is the transcript from this interview:

TUDGE-Transcript----ABC-Global-business-and-talent-attraction-taskforce.pdf

The new, whole-of-government Global Business and Talent Attraction Taskforce will bring together experts from across the Commonwealth, States and Territories as well as the private sector, as part of the Government’s JobMaker plan.

Senior business leader, Peter Verwer AO, has been appointed as the head of the Taskforce and will be known as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Global Business and Talent Attraction.

The Taskforce will operate as a ‘strike team’ to turbo-charge the creation of jobs by boosting our efforts to attract high value global business and exceptional talent. The initial focus will be on three key sectors: advanced manufacturing, financial services (including FinTech) and health.

Australia is strategically well positioned given its management of the pandemic and our relatively strong economy. We have always been an attractive destination due to our lifestyle, democratic system, clean cities and proximity to Asia. We can use those advantages to bring more global business and talent to our shores and help create more Australian jobs.

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Source:  Benchmark

Migration Alliance has received the following email from the Department:

Please be advised your submission to the ‘Creating a world class migration advice industry’ Discussion Paper has now been published at the following link: 

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-publications/submissions-and-discussion-papers/migration-advice-industry

The following information was received by email this evening from Live In Victoria:

We will be opening Victoria’s 2020-21 Victorian skilled visa nomination program (subclass 190 and 491) on Tuesday 8 September, 2020. 

We will also be changing the way we select applicants to apply for Victorian visa nomination, with a new process that will focus on talent and contribution to Victoria’s economic recovery, as well as information in your Expression of Interest (EOI). This change aims to be responsive to challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, with a focus on the state’s economic recovery.