Despite being voted the fifth best city in the world, and the second best in Australia after mighty Melbourne, by an international survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit recently, the migration numbers to Adelaide are considered relatively low compared to the bigger cities and mining states. Compared to these other states, the population growth in South Australia is relatively stable with little change in the number of people coming to and leaving the state.

To turn this around and potentially boost the economy and population numbers, Immigration South Australia has introduced a new nomination pathway, chain migration*, which allows applicants with an immediate family member permanently residing in South Australia to apply for a state nominated visa.

Chain migration enables applicants to access occupations on the South Australian Graduate List and occupations listed as special conditions apply. 

Requirements

To qualify for the chain migration pathway, applicants must:

This sets out how to make a valid application under FOI to the DIBP. 

Write to this email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as follows:

To the FOI Manager

The Fair Work Ombudsman has ordered a poultry farm in Newcastle to pay $20,000 in back-pay to sc417 workers but says that it is powerless to deal with many of the other abuses of the company. Perhaps DIBP and the Federal Police will be among the relevant authorities that will investigate these abuses. And chances are, DIBP may be faced with the issue of unregistered practice lurking in this complex chain which seem to involve several layers of subcontracting in order to bring young workers from Taiwan and Hong Kong to the poultry farms.

The Fair Work Ombudsman issued a statement saying that it is concerned about the sub-contracting arrangements it identified during the course of its investigations which it believes contributed to poor record-keeping practices and underpayment of minimum entitlements.

The ombudsman, “found connections between companies in the contracting line beneath the principal sub-contractor whereby they shared the same accountant, interchanged directors, listed individuals as signatories on bank accounts and transferred supervisors from one company to another as labour hire contracts were signed.”

The ABC reports that the Newcastle branch of the Australasian Meat Workers Union identified the labour hire company as Pham Poultry, which is providing employees for the Baiada plant, near Newcastle.

Craig Bildstein, from Fair Work, says his officers are sometimes quite shocked by the poor safety standards people are working in.

The DIBP website has the following information on this page titled DISCLOSURE LOG.

When clicking the link the document below appears. 

I just received this link: 

THIS LINK IS NOT HOSTED OR CREATED BY MIGRATION ALLIANCE.  WE CANNOT TAKE THE LINK DOWN AS WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THE SITE THE LIST IS HOSTED ON.

As predicted the list has now surfaced.