'Fundamentally a strength': Labor shakes up migration
Labor will cap some working holiday visas, restrict student family visas and detain more overstayers as net overseas migration falls toward budget forecasts.
- On Thursday, Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced migration reforms at the National Press Club, targeting a reduction in net overseas migration from 292,100 to 225,000 annually.
- The government will revert to pre-2015 settings, which Burke said will incentivize overstayers to leave or face detention, targeting the roughly 77,000 unlawful non-citizens in Australia.
- International students face new restrictions preventing family reunification and 'visa hopping,' changes education stakeholders warn could hurt the $55 billion export industry.
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre chief Kon Karapanagiotidis compared the detention plan to 'shocking ICE-driven crackdowns,' questioning whether the government intends to detain whole families.
- Australia's population grew 1.4 per cent to 27.9 million in the 12 months to March, while Burke argued falling household sizes drive housing shortages requiring 450,000 additional homes.
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The government warned Friday that tourists who have exceeded the visa permit will be placed in administrative detention as part of the tightening of immigration policy, reports AFP.
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AlKhaleej TodayAustralia to detain visa overstayers under new migration crackdown, drawing concern from tourism sector
SYDNEY, Sept 18 — Australia will detain tourists who overstay visas to send a message of deterrence under new rules aimed at reducing levels of migration, a minister said...
Detention for overstayers as Australia eyes deterrence
Australia will detain tourists who overstay visas to send a message of deterrence under new rules aimed at reducing levels of migration, a minister said on Friday. Australia's ruling Labor Party has denied it is tightening visa rules in response to the rise of the far-right One Nation, which has become one of the country's most popular parties this year with pledges to drastically slash migration. Under reforms announced on Thursday, Australia w…
After an important turn on student visas and work holidays, the Minister of the Interior announced that he would also want to take care of tourists who stay on the territory for too long.
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