10 Mar 2010 The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed the final report of the Baird Review on the legislation governing international education. Senator Evans explains that ‘The skilled migration program changes will encourage overseas students to focus o read more

6 March 2010 The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) have updated the critical skills list this week to include computing professionals.  After the changes brought in by DIAC on 8th February 2010 including the withdrawal of the Migration Occupations in Demand List ( read more

01 Mar 2010 Australia is currently experiencing a massive housing shortfall, pushing up prices and making it impossible for first time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.  However a private report released today shows the sale of new home surged in January 2010. The report shows th read more

25 Feb 2010 The Australian Government is to invest $69 million to introduce biometric visa checks for Visa applications. This strengthening of Australia’s border security is to take place over the next four years.The program is in collaboration with the UK government and is thought to be in respo read more

24 Feb 2010 It is expected that the Australian economy will experience a boom later this decade according to a leading economic forecaster. At the same time it is expected that interest rates will rise by another two percentage points over the next three to four years. "We are now well and trul read more

23 Feb 2010 As major projects such as the National Broadband Network gather momentum it is expected that there are going to be skills shortages in many IT specialities in Australia. The Australian Government set up NBN co Limited in 2009 in order to set up superfast broadband to Australian Hom read more

23 Feb 10 British passengers wanted for an adventure through Western Australia! Tourism WA is seeking two outgoing Brits with a spirit of adventure and ability to play up to cameras to be part of the Extraordinary Taxi Ride, an epic nine week journey by taxi across Western Australia (WA). Tour read more

21 Feb 2010 Timothy George the Australian High Commissioner in Pakistan launched a new phase of the AusAID Pakistan scholarship programme on 19th February 2010. In consultation with the Pakistani government the new programme has been designed in line with Pakistan’s development priorities and f read more

19 February 2010 A report released today shows that nearly 90 per cent of Temporary skilled migrants granted 457 visas in the period 2009 – 2010 so far are managers and professional workers. The same report also shows that the average salary for all new temporary skilled migrant workers ha read more

18 Feb 2010 Australia & New Zealand Magazine are holding their first Down Under Live event in Leeds on 27th & 28th March and we have tickets worth £15 to give away to the first 20 people to get in touch. The show will have specialist exhibitors and experts on emigrating to Australi read more