VISAS – AUSTRALIA

Coalition’s migration plan risks breaching India free trade agreement and damaging economy, advocates warn

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Original article by Krishani Dhanji
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 7-Oct-26

The number of temporary graduate visas would be reduced from 271,200 to just 10,000 by 2031-32 under the Coalition’s migration policy. Shadow home affairs minister Jonno Duniam has indicated that there will be a four-year transitional phase before the temporary graduate visa is abolished. The International Education Association of Australia’s CEO Phil Honeywood contends that the Coalition’s policy could breach Australia’s free-trade agreement with India, which allows Indian students to stay and work in Australia for up to four years after completing their studies. Universities Australia CEO Luke Sheehy adds that scrapping temporary graduate visas could make Australia less attractive to international students.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Taylor denies immigration cut will hit economy

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Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 7-Oct-26

Opposition leader Angus Taylor has announced that net overseas migration would be reduced to 100,000 annually during the first two years of a Coalition government, before progressively rising to 160,000 during its fourth year in office. Other key features of the Coalition’s migration policy – which Taylor has described as the biggest cut to immigration in Australia’s history – include reducing the number of temporary visa holders by 650,000 during its first term in office and increasing the number of visa for high-value skilled migrants by more than 100,000. Taylor says the Coalition’s proposed immigration reforms would boost the federal budget by about $260m over four years.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Labor urges Senate censure of Dutton

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Original article by Rosie Lewis
The Australian – Page: 5 : 20-Sep-18

Greens MP Adam Bandt will push for a no-confidence motion against Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton over his intervention in the issuance of visas to two au pairs. This follows a Senate committee’s recommendation that the upper house should consider a censure motion against Dutton over his role in the scandal. Labor and Greens members of the committee have alleged that Dutton deliberately misled parliament regarding the controversy, a view that has been rejected by Coalition members of the committee.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Dutton accuses Quaedvlieg of grooming young woman

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Original article by Tom McIlroy
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 12-Sep-18

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said on 11 September that Labor should not rely on Roman Quaedvlieg as it continues to pursue Dutton over the issuing of visas to two au pairs. Dutton claimed that Quaedvlieg, who is a former Australian Border Force commissioner and who Dutton has accused of trying to smear him over the au pair case, had "groomed" a young woman 30 years his junior. Dutton also continued to deny he had any personal link to the people involved in the two au pair cases.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Border wars: Dutton hits back

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Original article by Rosie Lewis
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 7-Sep-18

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has accused his one-time Queensland Police Force colleague Roman Quaedvlieg of providing false evidence to a Senate inquiry. The Labor-led inquiry is investigating Dutton’s role in the granting of visas to two au pairs. Dutton appointed Quaedvlieg as Australia’s first ever Border Force Commissioner, but Quaedvlieg was dismissed from that role in March for misbehaviour. Quaedvlieg is being investigated about his misconduct, and Dutton suggested it might partly be the pressure of this investigation that caused him to give false evidence to the inquiry.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Dutton’s au pair drama shows hypocrisy of immigration policy

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Original article by Waleed Aly
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: Online : 31-Aug-18

Peter Dutton has sought to create an image of being someone who believes in the importance of applying rules rigidly and in law and order. Humanitarian causes seemingly do not move him. However, in letting an au pair into Australia on a tourist visa when he was immigration minister, Dutton showed he was prepared to go against the principles on which he has earned his tough reputation. He was told the au pair had previously broken Australia’s visa rules and was likely to do so again, but he ignored the advice of Immigration staff. It would appear Dutton is happy to let some people into Australia illegally if they are "the right kind of people".

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS