When we import skills it should be on time expiring visas, varying from six months for agricultural workers to five years for nurses and ten for doctors. Citizenship should be a prize offered to some at the end of their visa. Finally we need to look critically at the congenitally unempl...
I’ve always gotten a lot of questions about how I manage visas for the countries I visit. It can seem overwhelming trying to navigate visas if you’ve never done it before, so in this chapter, I cover the basics of tourist visas and how I live on them from country to country as a...
WhiteAustralians’anger at having to competefor work with nonwhites fed the popularcampaignto unify the continent’sBritishcolonies intoasingle, independent,“WhiteAustralia.”Almost immediatelyonits formation in 1901,Australia’snew Commonwealth Parliament expelled Melanesians and passed an Immigra-tion ...
Since World War II, over 675,000 refugees and people in humanitarian need have been resettled in Australia including people from Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Central America, the Middle East and Africa. According to Humanitarian Programme statistics for 2005-06 • 14,144 visas were granted...