Archive for May, 2006

South Australia is seeking to recruit up to 70 more British police officers. The move follows two successful UK recruitment drives that have attracted more than 180 British officers to South Australia.
Applications close at 5.00 pm central Australian winter time on Wednesday, 14 June 2006.
Applicants who are invited to undertake the entrance examination/psychological testing will [...]

The Trade Skills Training Visa (471) was introduced in November 2005.
In April Kim Beazley, leader of Australia’s opposition Labor Party, said that he would like to abolish these foreign apprenticeship visas, which were “ruining the job prospects of young Australians”.
“The Howard Government brought in the Trade Skills Training Visa (subclass 471), giving apprenticeships to unskilled [...]

The government has announced that family stream places will be increased by 4,000 – to 46,000 – in the period 2006 – 2007.The intention is to meet an increased demand for partner places in the annual immigration programme. Demand is increasing because of:

the increased mobility of young Australians bringing partners back from overseas
the increased volume [...]

The government has announced that the increased numbers in this year’s immigration programme – 20,000 extra places – will be maintained next year.
The migration programme in 2006-07 of up to 144,000 places will be made up of 97,500 places in the Skill Stream and 46,000 places in the Family Stream.
 
“This year we have worked extremely [...]

“Skilled migrants with general skilled migration visas are achieving higher levels of labour market success than ever before.” 
This was the conclusion reached in an independent evaluation of the general skilled migration categories carried out by three of Australia’s leading immigration experts *.
Australia already has the best skilled migration programme in the world, but we cannot afford to stand still,” Minister [...]

The minimum salary that employers must pay temporary skilled workers in Australia has been increased to be $41, 850 for most professionsThis is an increase of more than 7 percent from last year’s level.The minimum salary does not override normal Australian employment conditions. If awards or workplace agreements demand a higher salary, then the higher [...]