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Visa services of the department of immigration and passenger clearances at customs are expected to slow down significantly over the next 10 days with the start of “protected industrial action” by the immigration department workers from today through to 26 June 2015.

DIBP has warned that during this period, airports, client service centres, ports, container examination facilities and visa processes will be affected with interruptions to helplines, visa processing services, passenger clearances and customs clearance services amongst others.

Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) covering more than half the public service are planning a series of half-day strikes to attend mass meetings around the country to protect their rights, conditions and pay from federal government attacks. According to media reports the union has not conducted such comprehensive industrial action for at least twenty years.

“Many of our members have already taken some protected industrial action. Now it’s time to do more and it’s time to do it together,” a statement from the CPSU noted.

This is an opportunity for you to send a clear message to the Government and Minister Abetz that the public sector won’t accept cuts to rights, conditions and real wages, let alone to the cuts to take home pay some members face." a statement from the CPSU noted.

On 1 July 2015 the Australian Border Force (ABF) will commence operations within the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, which will formally merge with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service on the same date. It marks a key milestone in the process of change which has seen the Department of Immigration “shift its focus from nation building and migrant settlement, towards a greater emphasis on border security.”

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A New Zealand advocacy group in Australia claims it has obtained some 40,000 signatures on a petition it will present to the Australian Parliament next week calling for New Zealanders to be given the same rights as other permanent residents residing in Australia, according to a Radio New Zealand report.

Last year, thousands of New Zealanders marched through Australian cities demanding equal rights after a series of media stories engaged in Kiwi bashing’ with some titles screaming, “JOBLESS Kiwis are flocking to Australia in search of work - and demanding the dole.” This year the New Zealand advocacy group, Oz Kiwi is aiming to put pressure directly on the Australian government to allow New Zealanders living permanently in Australia to naturalise within a designated time period so they can vote.

Spokesperson Timothy Gassin said the OZ Kiwi proposal was simple: that New Zealanders who move to Australia, who have been self sufficient and pay tax, should be given the full rights of other Australian residents and be allowed the option of becoming an Australian citizen.

Mr Gassin told Radio New Zealand that Oz Kiwi would meet with senators and parliamentarians this week to present their concerns and the petition which he claims has some 40,000 signatures.

Currently New Zealanders with a clean criminal record can enter, live and work indefinitely in Australia on a sc444 visa, which is granted automatically when they arrive. There are about 650,000 New Zealanders living in Australia on the Special Category Visa. An estimated 200,000 of these Kiwis are subject to the 2001 restrictions which deny New Zealanders a range of entitlements including welfare and various forms of government assistance from education and healthcare to disaster relief.

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Dear Members of Migration Alliance,

The Annual General Meeting has been called for 2PM, 17th July 2015.

To view the notice, please click here.

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Immigration numbers are too high, straining Sydney and Melbourne’s infrastructure and pushing up house prices beyond the reach of average Australians, former NSW Labor premier Bob Carr recently told The Australian.

“If you jam more people into Sydney, then they will get spikes in land and housing prices. We are stoking demand,’’ he said.

Are the estimated 50,000 foreign settlers a year in NSW responsible for the doubling of house prices in Sydney since about early 2000? The population of NSW is close to 6 million.

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The Federal Circuit Court has ruled,in a decision that has importance for RMAs beyond the specific facts of the case, that the MRT erroneously affirmed the Department’s cancellation of a student visa. See Mirdan v Minister for Immigration & Anor, (2015) FCCA (24 April 2015).

The MRT’s decision was based, in part, on its finding that the visa holder was not a “genuine student” because he had not studied in Australia after the time that his student visa was cancelled, during a time period when he held only a bridging visa that contained a “no study condition”. 

The Court’s decision in this case therefore saved the visa holder from a “no-win”, Catch-22” situation where it would have been possible to avoid an adverse finding by the MRT only by contravening the conditions of his bridging visa.

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