The Australian Government is investing an additional $630 million through the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Border Force to improve Australia’s migration program and build on Australia’s already strong border and national security settings.

These investments complement the Government’s proposed vision for a targeted, simpler migration system that serves our national interests and helps migrants thrive in our society and economy. The total investment includes the following new measures:

Migration program and settlement services

The Government is ensuring the migration system delivers the skilled migrants needed to address persistent skills shortages, by allocating around 70 per cent of places in the 2023- 24 Permanent Migration Program to the Skill stream. Partner and child visas will remain demand-driven.

This will complement medium and longer-term efforts to address domestic skill deficits through education, training and sectoral reform.

Source: Joint-Media-Release—Clare-ONeill-MP-and-Andrew-Giles-MP.pdf

and The-Hon-Jim-Chalmers—-Net-Overseas-Migration—Transcript.pdf and

FECCA-Welcomes-budget-measures-for-multicultural-communities-but-more-is-needed.pdf and

Mark-Dreyfus-KC-MP-Media-Release—-tackling-modern-slavery.pdf and

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/federal-budget/more-than-700000-migrants-will-flock-to-australia-by-the-end-of-next-year/news-story/808b6c7883b6e24639bb2c1779c89e38 and

The-Asylum-Seeker-Resource-Centre-initial-response-to-the-Fed-budget-2023-24.pdf

If you are a Registered Migration Agent or Lawyer and would like to attend a one-off online event which covers off the changes, it is on tomorrow at 9AM (Sydney time) with Immigration Lawyer, Arnela Tolic – 1 hour and 1 CPD/CLE point.  Book here: https://legaltrainingaustralia.com/webinar-cpd/