Saturday, May 28, 2011

Statistics Anyone?


DIAC has this week published some interesting statistics about a number of visa programs, including the, increasingly popular 457 visa....

Subclass 457 State – Territory Summary Report 1 July 2010 to 30 April 2011

Creative commons attribution for the graphic.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Sustainable Population Strategy

Unfortunately I have been neglecting this blog this year....this is about to change.

The government released its Sustainable population strategy on 13 May 2011.
Perhaps not surprisingly one of the things which is to be encouraged is migration to regional areas and enhancements to the RSMS (regional sponsored migration scheme).

It has been a policy bugbear for many years that a majority of migrants end up in Sydney or Melbourne. I am not really convinced this will ever change as they are the biggest centres with the biggest opportunities.