The cost of a visa for international students has quietly been more than doubled. A stark 125 per cent fee hike from $710 to $1600 will be implemented from July 1, with the funds to be reinvested back into the tertiary eduction and vocational sector and used for the implementationContinue Reading
Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has accused the Coalition of “misleading” the public over record migration as leaders leap to point the blame over who is responsible for housing shortages. Queensland Labor Premier Steven Miles has supported Peter Dutton’s proposal to slash Australia’s permanent migration intake down to 160,000 toContinue Reading
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Coalition’s proposal to slash Australia’s migration intake by 25 per cent could cost the economy tens of billions of dollars. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton used his budget reply speech on Thursday to announce a crackdown on migration and foreign property investment as part of hisContinue Reading
The Coalition’s budget reply speech is set to focus on addressing the cost-of-living crisis and attacking Labor on high migration numbers. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who believes Anthony Albanese could call an election within months, will use his speech on Thursday night to make a pitch to voters. The PrimeContinue Reading
Highly skilled migrants will be targeted while the total migration intake is slashed over coming years, as the government tries to reduce pressure on the stretched housing sector while building out its Future Made in Australia plan. After a record net overseas migration intake of 528,000 in 2022-23, Treasury isContinue Reading
Universities will be forced to cap numbers of overseas student enrolments as part of Labor’s efforts to ease pressures on Australia’s housing market and slash the migration intake ahead of the next election. The federal government will introduce new legislation to set limits for the maximum number of new internationalContinue Reading
Stark forecasts for home prices across the country are tipping mammoth growth in the next three years, according to a leading economics firm. House prices in Sydney are predicted to reach an average of nearly $2 million by 2027, thanks to anticipated rate cuts and a supply shortage, research byContinue Reading
Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year. But some experts have long questioned that figure, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), arguing it does not take intoContinue Reading
Pauline Hanson has called back to her now-infamous claims Australia is being “swamped” by Asian immigrants as she renewed calls to halt migration. On the day new figures revealed Australia’s migration intake had surged to a record high of 548,800 arrivals in the year to September, threatening the government’s ownContinue Reading
NSW Premier Chris Minns has said the state is unable to put a “stop sign” to the Commonwealth’s plan to increase immigration, despite ongoing pressures to NSW’s budget. While NSW continues to be on the warpath after being short-changed in the GST carve-up, Mr Minns says he is unable toContinue Reading