18th June  Our visa partner Immigration 2oz is hosting a seminar to introduce the new State Migration Plans and provide information to prospective migrants on the changes to the migration regulations which come into effect on the 1st of July.  The seminar will be held at the Mandolay Ho read more

With 25,800km of coastline including seven thousand beaches, cosmopolitan cities to rival those in Europe, tropical rainforests and dry, hot desert plains, Australia has many appealing facets. It’s no wonder then that tourism generates $8.1 billion every year, making up 0.9% of the country’s GDP. read more

Migration may be a topical subject of political debate, especially in the UK, but it is nothing new. People have been jumping ship from one country to another for hundreds of years. Although the UK opens its gates to thousands of migrants every year – there were 565,000 in 2005 mostly from Africa read more

June 11 An article in the Syney Morning Herald proposes that AUSTRALIA is creating jobs at the pace of one every 30 seconds, piling on an extra 140,000 in the first five months of this year, confirming talk of a ''V-shaped'' recovery and driving unemployment down to the interest rate-sensit read more

10th June The job market is showing slow but impressive recovery, says the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey conducted over the third quarter of 2010.Though Australian job prospects rank among the strongest in the world, after India, Brazil, Taiwan, China and Peru, employers will still hold back read more

8th June Hurrah, at last the Pound is starting to make headway against the Australian Dollar. Those who need to buy Aussie Dollars to start their new life down under have seen the value of their Pounds advance from the A$ 1.62 we saw in March and May to A$ 1.77 which I can see at the time of writ read more

26 May 2010 As the Australian government prepares the biggest overhaul of the skilled visa regulations in the past 20 years many businesses living with the reality of skill shortages are starting to ask how their needs will be addressed. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) annou read more

21 May 2010 With the release of the revised Skilled Occupation List this week it has been hinted that there will be an emphasis on the employer sponsorship scheme in the new migration program. The new SOL has been reduced by over 50% from 400 occupations to just 181 and includes the removal of read more

17 May 2009 On 8 February 2010, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, announced that the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) was revoked from that date. He also announced his intention that the current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) be replaced from the second read more

10 May 2010 The April ANZ job ad survey showed a 1.2 per cent drop in jobs advertised online and in newspapers as interest rate rises and slowing demand reduced momentum in the market. Job Advertisements in April reduced to an average of 160,660 a week - still 14.9 per cent higher than in April read more