Australia’s Businessmen Blaming Government For Urban Problems And Not Migration

Time and again it is said that Australian population has been badly impacted by the immigration overdose resulting in poor infrastructure and depleting resources of Australia.

However, the business groups of Australia have different story to tell. The business organizations are happy with the new migrants coming and working in their organizations to boost their economy and contribute to the taxes but they are not satisfied with the way of Morrison Government working.

The business groups in Australia are blaming poor government planning, and not immigration for failing to deal with the growing population numbers.

The Australian populous cities are becoming space less with congestion in roads, public transport pains, shortage of schools and hospitals and high housing prices. Thus, all these problems have made Australia’s major cities less livable than they were before.

So, when asked the Chief Executive James Pearson about slashing migration is the solution to increase population, the executive said, “Migration is a apart of Australia’s DNA.”

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The two separate reports released this week, one by the Chamber and the other by Infrastructure Australia, have pinned the failures to deal with population growth on poor government planning rather than immigration.

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Australia State are planning to lower the requirements for language, skills and work experience

The new regional migration agreement states that some states of Australia are planning to lower the requirements for language, skills and work experience to invite foreign workers on permanent basis. Ultimately, these workers will be able to apply for Australia PR in the near future.

Northern Territory and Victoria are two of the Australian states that will lower basic requirements for the foreign workers willing to come and settle in the country. The applicants applying under regional migration agreement must stay for at least 3 years and after meeting this requirement will become eligible to apply for Australian Permanent Residency visa.

The Australian Immigration Minister, David Coleman said the government is improving the program to meet the needs of the regions by meeting the labour requirements to close the employment gap in the regional areas.

At present the Australian PR pathway through a work visa is only available to foreign workers in skilled occupations.

The new system is introduced known DAMAs (Designated Area Migration Agreements) that opens up new immigration pathway for migrants with lower skills to apply for Australia PR.

DAMA would offer job-offer letter to semi-skilled workers who would be later on able to apply for an Australia PR.

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Report: 80% Australians Says Immigration has Positive Impact On Economy

The recent report released by The Scanlon Foundation released a report stating that 4 out of 5 Australians feel immigration is beneficial for the economy. The report tracked the opinion of the people on immigration and population concerns.

The survey mapped 1500 Australians, where 52% of the respondents felt that the current immigration numbers are just okay. 43% felt that the immigration numbers are too high for Australian population.

Andrew Markus, Researcher from Monash University said that 82% of respondents felt immigration improved the Australian Society. The overseas migrants have brought new ideas and cultures that improved the overall society.

80% of Australians also agree that immigration is good for the overall development of the economy. The migrants brought fresh ideas and created new jobs.

The Australian Population has increased by 5 million. As per the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Australian population is set to reach 30 million between 2029 and 2033.

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Though not every Australian was happy with the coming up of migrants in Australia, 54% of the respondents showed concern at the overcrowding of Australian major cities. 49% of the respondents are concerned over the increasing housing projects due to immigration. The other 48% of respondents blamed Australian government insufficient management of population increase.

The Australian Government aims at improving the population level to ease the stress on Australian cities. It is projected that Scott Morrison might cut down the immigration numbers by 30,000.

The annual cap f immigration intake was lowest in 2017-18 with only 163,000 PR visas issued under Australian Permanent Residency Visas.

Most of the respondents also felt that multiculturalism was good for Australia as it involves change of culture, ideas and belief of two countries. It involves adaptation both from the people in Australia and from the ones coming from overseas. The survey also asked the question to the respondents about adaptability of culture, where 54% of respondents felt that immigrants should adopt their behavior to be like people of Australia. Though, 37% felt that government should do something in order to maintain the traditions and customs of migrants.

Also, the rate of discrimination on the basis of religion, or skin color has also been reduced since 2016, as per SBS.

Australia is a wonderful country to live and work on permanent basis. The people already residing here are also very warm and welcoming. Check your immigration chances by filling the free assessment form to know which visa category suits you for Australian Permanent Residency.

You may also like to read- All About Latest Australia Immigration Updates w.e.f. 1st July 2018

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Australia Immigration Department to Bring New Farmer Visa

Australian Federal Minister of Agriculture, David Littleproud has announced to introduce special farm workers Visa for the Agricultural season. He says that picking farmers for the visa is his top priority. The Agriculture minister is having meetings with the newly appointed Minister of Immigration, David Coleman to discuss about the possibility of the new farmer visa.

The farm worker visa will only focus on hiring workers to help in the busy agriculture period that lasts from May to August every year.

The Agriculture Minister has been an avid supporter of the new Visa and has said that agriculture industry is facing huge labour shortage in the country and he believes that agriculture visa could help address the farmer shortage problem, as per The Australian.

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Littleproud also believes that Australia needs a specific farm visa so that overseas farmers willing to work in Australian farms do not plod through various categories of visa. The visa proposal is to introduce the multiple entry visa of short duration to meet the farmer labour requirements without the need of any Labour Market Testing. The applications for this visa do not require any kind of sponsorship and applicants would be able to switch employers within the agriculture sector.

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