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Australia Tightens Visa Rules: Focus On English Scores, Extended Stay
Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two years as the government looks to overhaul what it said was a "broken" migration system.
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Australia Lifts Near 2-Year Entry Ban For Non-Citizens Amid Omicron Scare
Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a near two-year ban on their entry, in a bid to boost an economy hit by stop-start COVID-19 lockdowns and restart international travel.
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Australia To Review Reopening Plans Amid New Covid Variant 'Omicron' Scare
Australia will review its plans to reopen borders to skilled migrants and students from Dec. 1, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, after the country reported its first cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant over the weekend.
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Australia's 'Pacific Guantanamo' Quietly Emptied
Only a handful of people remained at a remote migrant detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island Tuesday, as authorities quietly empty a facility often dubbed "Australia's Guantanamo".
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Australia To Cut Down Annual Permanent Migrant Intake: Reports
The Australian government will slash the nation's permanent migrant intake from 190,000 to 160,000 in the lead-up to May's general election, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Search Ops On, But No Trace Of Missing Boat Carrying 100 Migrants Yet
The Coast Guard and the Navy are still searching for a fishing trawler with over 100 Indians that set off from Munambam port in Kerala's rural Ernakulam to an unknown destination over ten days ago.
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Want to Move to Australia? Sydney Or Melbourne May Be Off Limits
New migrants wanting to settle in Australia may soon face a big condition on their stay: Sydney and Melbourne will be off limits.
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Indonesian People-Smuggling Kingpin Jailed For 6 Years
An Indonesian people-smuggling kingpin who organised an illegal migrant boat journey that sparked a diplomatic row with Australia was jailed for six years on Thursday.
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Australia To Offer New, 5-Year Visas To Migrants' Families
The Australian government on Saturday launched a new five-year visas for families of migrants in a bid to reduce decade-long waiting list seeking permanent residency.
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Papua New Guinea, Australia Agree To Close Detention Center
Papua New Guinea and Australia said today they have agreed to close a detention center on Manus Island for asylum seekers but they offered no details on when it will happen or on the fate of the 850 men being held there.
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Australia Needs To 'Lift Game' To Help Refugees: Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International Wednesday slammed Australia for its treatment of asylum-seekers in remote Pacific camps, as it also urged Canberra to "lift their game" and help relieve the international refugee crisis.
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Australia Moves to Quash Migrant Centre Unrest
Australian police reinforcements poured into remote Christmas Island on Tuesday to help quell unrest at a migrant detention centre, amid reports inmates had armed themselves with machetes and petrol bombs.
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Australian Asylum Policies Under Fire at UN Rights Review
Australia was criticised on Monday at the United Nations for its offshore processing of asylum claims, detention of child migrants and reports it had sent back legitimate refugees.
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Hungary PM Tells US, Australia to Take Some of Europe's Migrants
Hungary's populist prime minister called today on the US, Australia, Israel and "rich Arab nations" to take in some of the migrants flowing into Europe, while likening the influx to an "army".
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Austria Foreign Minister Calls for Greater Urgency on Migrant Crisis
Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said European leaders needed to devise a common plan urgently to tackle the wave of migrants arriving in the bloc or risk having more and more countries resorting to their own measures.
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Australia Tightens Visa Rules: Focus On English Scores, Extended Stay
Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two years as the government looks to overhaul what it said was a "broken" migration system.
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Australia Lifts Near 2-Year Entry Ban For Non-Citizens Amid Omicron Scare
Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a near two-year ban on their entry, in a bid to boost an economy hit by stop-start COVID-19 lockdowns and restart international travel.
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Australia To Review Reopening Plans Amid New Covid Variant 'Omicron' Scare
Australia will review its plans to reopen borders to skilled migrants and students from Dec. 1, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, after the country reported its first cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant over the weekend.
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Australia's 'Pacific Guantanamo' Quietly Emptied
Only a handful of people remained at a remote migrant detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island Tuesday, as authorities quietly empty a facility often dubbed "Australia's Guantanamo".
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Australia To Cut Down Annual Permanent Migrant Intake: Reports
The Australian government will slash the nation's permanent migrant intake from 190,000 to 160,000 in the lead-up to May's general election, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Search Ops On, But No Trace Of Missing Boat Carrying 100 Migrants Yet
The Coast Guard and the Navy are still searching for a fishing trawler with over 100 Indians that set off from Munambam port in Kerala's rural Ernakulam to an unknown destination over ten days ago.
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Want to Move to Australia? Sydney Or Melbourne May Be Off Limits
New migrants wanting to settle in Australia may soon face a big condition on their stay: Sydney and Melbourne will be off limits.
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Indonesian People-Smuggling Kingpin Jailed For 6 Years
An Indonesian people-smuggling kingpin who organised an illegal migrant boat journey that sparked a diplomatic row with Australia was jailed for six years on Thursday.
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Australia To Offer New, 5-Year Visas To Migrants' Families
The Australian government on Saturday launched a new five-year visas for families of migrants in a bid to reduce decade-long waiting list seeking permanent residency.
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Papua New Guinea, Australia Agree To Close Detention Center
Papua New Guinea and Australia said today they have agreed to close a detention center on Manus Island for asylum seekers but they offered no details on when it will happen or on the fate of the 850 men being held there.
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Australia Needs To 'Lift Game' To Help Refugees: Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International Wednesday slammed Australia for its treatment of asylum-seekers in remote Pacific camps, as it also urged Canberra to "lift their game" and help relieve the international refugee crisis.
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Australia Moves to Quash Migrant Centre Unrest
Australian police reinforcements poured into remote Christmas Island on Tuesday to help quell unrest at a migrant detention centre, amid reports inmates had armed themselves with machetes and petrol bombs.
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Australian Asylum Policies Under Fire at UN Rights Review
Australia was criticised on Monday at the United Nations for its offshore processing of asylum claims, detention of child migrants and reports it had sent back legitimate refugees.
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Hungary PM Tells US, Australia to Take Some of Europe's Migrants
Hungary's populist prime minister called today on the US, Australia, Israel and "rich Arab nations" to take in some of the migrants flowing into Europe, while likening the influx to an "army".
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Austria Foreign Minister Calls for Greater Urgency on Migrant Crisis
Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said European leaders needed to devise a common plan urgently to tackle the wave of migrants arriving in the bloc or risk having more and more countries resorting to their own measures.
