Sunday, November 12, 2017
Ceasing Work on a 457 Visa
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Applying for a Partner Visa on a WHV
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Client Testimonials
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Client Video Testimonial - Renan & Adam
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20 of the best things to do with kids in Townsville and beyond
From breakfast with the koalas on Maggie Island to Texas-style wagon rides in Charters Towers, no matter your budget, there's plenty to see and do in the sunshine capital of the state!
Originally Published here: 20 of the best things to do with kids in Townsville and beyond
Originally Published here: 20 of the best things to do with kids in Townsville and beyond
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Vulnerable 96-year-old forced to leave family after being deported back to Scotland - Scottish Daily Record
Starts at 60 |
Vulnerable 96-year-old forced to leave family after being deported back to Scotland
Scottish Daily Record In a desperate Facebook message, Diane blamed Australian bureaucracy for “unreasonably” expiring her visa. She wrote: “Here is 96-year-old mum with bag packed, ready to leave her only close family and her home for the last couple of years, and being ... "Nearly blind" 96-year-old woman with dementia forced to leave family in Australia to be deported back to UK Government deports ailing senior over visa blunder |
Originally Published here: Vulnerable 96-year-old forced to leave family after being deported back to Scotland - Scottish Daily Record
"Nearly blind" 96-year-old woman with dementia forced to leave family in Australia to be deported back to UK - Mirror.co.uk
Starts at 60 |
"Nearly blind" 96-year-old woman with dementia forced to leave family in Australia to be deported back to UK
Mirror.co.uk The pensioner, originally from Dulnain Bridge, Strathspey, thought she was complying with the terms of her visa, the Daily Record reports. Her visa stipulates that she must leave Australia once a year and, despite the pensioner taking a cruise out to ... Government deports ailing senior over visa blunder Vulnerable 96-year-old forced to leave family after being deported back to Scotland |
Originally Published here: "Nearly blind" 96-year-old woman with dementia forced to leave family in Australia to be deported back to UK - Mirror.co.uk
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Government deports ailing senior over visa blunder - Starts at 60
Starts at 60 |
Government deports ailing senior over visa blunder
Starts at 60 A nearly blind 96-year-old woman with mild dementia has been told she will be deported from Australia only two years after moving here to be with her last surviving family member. The Daily Mail reported that Scottish migrant Christina Grant has been ... |
Originally Published here: Government deports ailing senior over visa blunder - Starts at 60
Immigration officials working with family of Highland pensioner facing deportation - Press and Journal
Press and Journal |
Immigration officials working with family of Highland pensioner facing deportation
Press and Journal A spokeswoman for Australian immigration and Border Protection said: “We're aware of this case and have been working with this individual to resolve her visa status for over 12 months. “All visitors to Australia must hold a valid visa for the duration ... |
Originally Published here: Immigration officials working with family of Highland pensioner facing deportation - Press and Journal
Government sees sense on skilled visas | afr.com - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review |
Government sees sense on skilled visas | afr.com
The Australian Financial Review The government has avoided stranding many high-end executive visa applicants. |
Originally Published here: Government sees sense on skilled visas | afr.com - The Australian Financial Review
Iraqi refugee artist Sameer Dakhil draws inspiration from new home in Australia - ABC Online
ABC Online |
Iraqi refugee artist Sameer Dakhil draws inspiration from new home in Australia
ABC Online Even at the moment he received his humanitarian visa, Dakhil's artist's brain was ticking away. "I started to think what should I give to this lovely country. And I thought about a pen," he says. "It must represent the gratitude from me to Australia ... |
Originally Published here: Iraqi refugee artist Sameer Dakhil draws inspiration from new home in Australia - ABC Online
NZ detainees claim abuse on Christmas Island - Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand |
NZ detainees claim abuse on Christmas Island
Radio New Zealand Mataia, who said he lost his Australian visa after a two-and-a-half year prison term for robbery, said he had witnessed a detainee next-door to his room get cuffed, elbowed and forced to the ground, where guards stood on his head. When RNZ first spoke ... |
Originally Published here: NZ detainees claim abuse on Christmas Island - Radio New Zealand
Immigration Department moves to outsource visa system to avoid cost blow-outs - The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times |
Immigration Department moves to outsource visa system to avoid cost blow-outs
The Canberra Times Private operators would run large parts of Australia's visa system and charge migrants under an Immigration Department plan to avoid cost blow-outs and cope with booming visitor demand. As the country prepares for a surge in tourists and migration, the ... |
Originally Published here: Immigration Department moves to outsource visa system to avoid cost blow-outs - The Canberra Times
Government sees sense on skilled visas - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review |
Government sees sense on skilled visas
The Australian Financial Review The same day that The Australian Financial Review splashed its front page with a disastrous and embarrassing application of Australia's new work visa rules, the federal government has backflipped on the plan – which might have seen hundreds of foreign ... |
Originally Published here: Government sees sense on skilled visas - The Australian Financial Review
Pack your bags and get out, Australia tells Highland gran aged 96 - Press and Journal
Pack your bags and get out, Australia tells Highland gran aged 96
Press and Journal But despite believing she was complying with her visa, which stipulates you must leave Australia once a year, it is understood the nonagenarian is about to be deported. Diane has posted a heart-wrenching picture of her mother-in-law online, gripping a ... |
Originally Published here: Pack your bags and get out, Australia tells Highland gran aged 96 - Press and Journal
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
BSMQ Update to QSOL: Engineering Technologist
Engineering Technologist (233914) was taken off our Queensland Skilled Occupations Lists on 11 July 2017 – please note we will not be accepting any new EOIs under this occupation from the 12 July 2017 at this stage. We have received a very large number of EOIs for this occupation.
We are currently not issuing any more invitations to lodge an application with BSMQ. However, if some of the current invitees do not respond in the requested time frame, we will issue further invitations to some of those in the current queue.
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Originally Published here: BSMQ Update to QSOL: Engineering Technologist
Franchise visa rorters in bed with Coalition - MacroBusiness (blog)
Franchise visa rorters in bed with Coalition
MacroBusiness (blog) The claim, lodged in the Ontario Superior Court, comes weeks after pizza giant Domino's was put in the spotlight in the Senate following an investigation by the competition watchdog the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) into ... |
Originally Published here: Franchise visa rorters in bed with Coalition - MacroBusiness (blog)
Backpackers told to do their research for visa work - Townsville Bulletin
Townsville Bulletin |
Backpackers told to do their research for visa work
Townsville Bulletin She repeated earlier demands that the Australian Government take a greater oversight of how backpackers are treated by employers in Australia. She particularly criticised the requirement that backpackers wanting a second-year visa had to complete 88 ... |
Originally Published here: Backpackers told to do their research for visa work - Townsville Bulletin
Monday, July 10, 2017
Mum of Mia Ayliffe-Chung out to expose 'exploitation' in Australian visa scheme - Gold Coast Bulletin
Gold Coast Bulletin |
Mum of Mia Ayliffe-Chung out to expose 'exploitation' in Australian visa scheme
Gold Coast Bulletin A Facebook photo of 20-year-old British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung who was violently stabbed to death in August, last year, at Shelley's Backpackers in Home Hill just 10 days into a farm work stint to extend her visa in Australian. Miss Ayliffe-Chung ... Mia Ayliffe-Chung's mother battles exploitation of backpackers in Australia Australian exploitation of backpackers 'rife', says mother of slain backpacker Slain backpacker's mum urges reform |
Originally Published here: Mum of Mia Ayliffe-Chung out to expose 'exploitation' in Australian visa scheme - Gold Coast Bulletin
Mia Ayliffe-Chung's mother battles exploitation of backpackers in Australia - The Guardian
The Guardian |
Mia Ayliffe-Chung's mother battles exploitation of backpackers in Australia
The Guardian Ayliffe said it had been “astonishing, terrifying, devastating” to learn of Mia's death in a stabbing in Home Hill, where she had gone seeking 88 days of farm work to extend her stay in Australia under the 417 visa scheme. She had since been contacted ... Australian exploitation of backpackers 'rife', says mother of slain backpacker Slain backpacker's mum urges reform Murdered backpacker's 'spotless' body was so free of blood after she was stabbed at least 20 times that paramedics ... |
Originally Published here: Mia Ayliffe-Chung's mother battles exploitation of backpackers in Australia - The Guardian
Australian exploitation of backpackers 'rife', says mother of slain backpacker - 9news.com.au
9news.com.au |
Australian exploitation of backpackers 'rife', says mother of slain backpacker
9news.com.au In an interview with Australian Story aired on Monday night, Rosie Ayliffe said her daughter's death in 2016 showed the dangers faced by backpackers under the working-holiday visa scheme. "I had to use the publicity around Mia and Tom's deaths to alert ... Murdered backpacker's 'spotless' body was so free of blood after she was stabbed at least 20 times that paramedics ... Slain backpacker's mum urges reform Mia Ayliffe-Chung killing: Backpacker's mother retraces daughter's steps in Australia |
Originally Published here: Australian exploitation of backpackers 'rife', says mother of slain backpacker - 9news.com.au
Peter Dutton reverses orderto deport grandmother - The Australian
Peter Dutton reverses orderto deport grandmother
The Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has reversed a decision to deport a South African woman who was refused a visa following a legal ruling that she was not related to her biological sister, who is an Australian citizen. Perth grandmother Linda Oppel ... |
Originally Published here: Peter Dutton reverses orderto deport grandmother - The Australian
Slain backpacker's mum urges reform - The Australian
Sky News |
Slain backpacker's mum urges reform
The Australian Speaking with Australian Story on Monday night, Rosie Ayliffe said the death of her daughter in 2015 had highlighted the dangers faced by backpackers under the working-holiday visa system. "I had to use the publicity around Mia and Tom's deaths to ... Mia Ayliffe-Chung killing: Backpacker's mother retraces daughter's steps in Australia British backpackers 'propping up Australian farming' |
Originally Published here: Slain backpacker's mum urges reform - The Australian
Atlassian's Scott Farquhar calls for reform of STEM teaching, skilled visas - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review |
Atlassian's Scott Farquhar calls for reform of STEM teaching, skilled visas
The Australian Financial Review The skills shortage throughout Australia's technology industry would still need to be addressed by the importation of skills, Mr Farquhar said, and he called for reform of the skilled visa system governing this as well. "The industries of the future ... |
Originally Published here: Atlassian's Scott Farquhar calls for reform of STEM teaching, skilled visas - The Australian Financial Review
Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle - ARN - ARNnet
ARNnet |
Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle - ARN
ARNnet ITPA challenges the Government's skilled visa changes. |
Originally Published here: Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle - ARN - ARNnet
British backpackers 'propping up Australian farming' - SBS
Daily Mail |
British backpackers 'propping up Australian farming'
SBS The mother of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, a British woman killed last August while working in Australia, says Australian farmers are "making huge amounts of money out of our backpackers" which has "got to stop". Rosie Ayliffe has told the BBC that Britons are ... Mother urges more rights for backpackers working in Australia |
Originally Published here: British backpackers 'propping up Australian farming' - SBS
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle - ARNnet
ARNnet |
Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle
ARNnet However, ITPA president, Robert Hudson, believes the latest policy shuffle is not a satisfactory response to the number of workers from overseas that are being bought in to fill low level IT jobs in Australia. With adjustments to the skilled migrant ... |
Originally Published here: Industry kerfuffle over visa jobs shuffle - ARNnet
48 Hours in Cape Hillsborough and The Hibiscus Coast
Spend a weekend with Australia’s youngest volcano at Cape Hillsborough and the Hibiscus Coast.
Originally Published here: 48 Hours in Cape Hillsborough and The Hibiscus Coast
Originally Published here: 48 Hours in Cape Hillsborough and The Hibiscus Coast
Schapelle Corby sings as she celebrates 40th birthday - The West Australian
The West Australian |
Schapelle Corby sings as she celebrates 40th birthday
The West Australian Panangian's ability to secure a visa to Australia is also hampered by his two previous drug convictions. Corby's Instagram followers include longtime supporters who regularly post about the Expendables website, which is a proponent of Corby's innocence ... |
Originally Published here: Schapelle Corby sings as she celebrates 40th birthday - The West Australian
'It's astonishing, terrifying and devastating': Mother of murdered backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung reveals how she ... - Daily Mail
Daily Mail |
'It's astonishing, terrifying and devastating': Mother of murdered backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung reveals how she ...
Daily Mail Mrs Ayliffe says she was unfamiliar with the scheme, that sees tourists aged between 19 and 31 spend 88 days working in the agricultural sector to extend their Australian visas a further year, and hoped the government had safety regulations in place ... 'I just woke up to screaming': Slain backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung's friend remembers |
Originally Published here: 'It's astonishing, terrifying and devastating': Mother of murdered backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung reveals how she ... - Daily Mail
Mia Ayliffe-Chung was killed at Home Hill in regional Queensland in August, 2016 - Daily Mail
Daily Mail |
Mia Ayliffe-Chung was killed at Home Hill in regional Queensland in August, 2016
Daily Mail Mrs Ayliffe says she was unfamiliar with the scheme, that sees tourists aged between 19 and 31 spend 88 days working in the agricultural sector to extend their Australian visas a further year, and hoped the government had safety regulations in place ... 'I just woke up to screaming': Slain backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung's friend remembers |
Originally Published here: Mia Ayliffe-Chung was killed at Home Hill in regional Queensland in August, 2016 - Daily Mail
Mia Ayliffe-Chung: Mother of murdered backpacker calls on Government to make '88 days' farm work scheme safe - ABC Online
ABC Online |
Mia Ayliffe-Chung: Mother of murdered backpacker calls on Government to make '88 days' farm work scheme safe
ABC Online British traveller Mia Ayliffe-Chung took work on a farm in north Queensland so she could extend her visa and spend another year in the country she loved. Days later she was dead. Now her mother has arrived in Australia to lobby for reform of the '88 ... |
Originally Published here: Mia Ayliffe-Chung: Mother of murdered backpacker calls on Government to make '88 days' farm work scheme safe - ABC Online
My Oz visa is up but I don't want to go home. What are my options? - Irish Times
Irish Times |
My Oz visa is up but I don't want to go home. What are my options?
Irish Times I'm writing to you from Australia, where I have been on a Working Holiday Visa for the past nine months. I'm loving it here, but with my visa coming to an end, and new visa rules being introduced by immigration here, I feel I need to look beyond ... |
Originally Published here: My Oz visa is up but I don't want to go home. What are my options? - Irish Times
Friday, July 7, 2017
DPP case too weak to go before a jury - The Kerryman
DPP case too weak to go before a jury
The Kerryman ... prosecution barrister Siobhán Lankford said the state alleged that in the immediate aftermath of the fatal crash a credit card in Dan Joe Fitzgerald's name was used to pay for his son's ferry fare to the UK, a plane ticket to Australia and an ... |
Originally Published here: DPP case too weak to go before a jury - The Kerryman