Will international students and backpackers be the next target?
Last fiscal year, Australia`s permanent immigrants were cut sharply. Although the result has been questioned and opposed, the Labour Party, which has always been anti-government, has not said much about the issue this time, but has started to fire on the issue of emigration.
Last week, Labour leader Bill Shorten accused government of allowing immigrants to leave their homes unchecked, with many negative effects on Australia`s jobs, implicitly revealing what it meant to cut students (poke it here for more details).
The Labour spokesman for immigration later denied it, but then came forward again, with backpackers and migrants from remote areas. Brendan O`Connor, a spokesman for the Labour Department of Employment, came out again and pointed the gun at foreign students.
Do you have to set a limit for student signing?
There is currently no quota limit for Australian students to sign. One of the advantages of studying in Australia is that (in session) can work 40 hours a fortnightly while vacations are unrestricted.
But Brendan believes that this will do great harm to Australian employment.
He said many students come to Australia nominally to study and actually work seven days a week, which is a complete departure from the original intention of the students to sign.
When many students come to Australia, they choose the kind of very cheap and simple courses. They do not really want to study, they just want to take a visa to work, which has greatly damaged Australia`s reputation for international education.
"if you are primarily learning, then OK, can give you a certain right to work. But to work under the guise of studying abroad is worth studying. "
Since the government came to power, the number of international students has increased by nearly two hundred thousand. So Labour thinks it is necessary to consider how to solve the current problem: either take strict measures to make more reasonable use of the visa, or set a cap on the visa quota.
So what if you make sure you make good use of student signatures?
Brendan didn`t make it clear. But Bob Birrell, director of the Australian Institute of population Studies, stepped up and last week criticized international students for continuing to renew their signatures to extend their stay in Australia.
He believes that students can now apply for other visas to stay in Australia after graduation, the policy needs to be changed. Just as government reformed employer-guaranteed visas last year, it made it harder for foreign students to apply for work visas. In this way, they are not free to apply for other visas, such as New Zealand, which says they want to cut immigration by strengthening management of "low-value" programmes.
"I think this is the best solution and won`t affect the real students."
The backpacker was shot, too.
Part-time vacation visa is permitted to work, generally for each employer can not work for more than 6 months. But Brendan says the visa also has a problem.
Because many backpackers have been working (making money) and never going on vacation (spending) since they arrived, this lost their visa intent and, worse, caused a lot of exploitative problems.
As a result, Brendan believes that, if you have to, you can also consider setting a quota cap (the current quota limit for mainland applicants in China is 5000 a year), but should give priority to a stricter censorship system. After all, they are still Australia`s agricultural sector of the important labor force.
In short, he believes that student and working vacation visas have been abused and therefore need to be dealt with. No, just set a quota cap on these visas to make sure you get a visa for what to do!
Support for new immigrants to remote areas
Australia`s population is about to exceed 25 million, but many people understand that Australia`s problem is not too many people, but that the distribution is very uneven: big cities are overcrowded and remote areas can`t keep people.
Earlier, the government has also said it is considering a new deal for immigrants from remote areas.
The Brendan also said the Labour Party would consider backing if the government introduced a new deal to force new immigrants to settle outside Sydney and Melbourne.
Asked if new immigrants would be forced to travel to remote areas, Mr Tan said all visas were subject to restrictions and that it would certainly be feasible to make provisions related to work in remote areas.
epilogue
A new deal for migrants from remote areas is still being worked out and is expected to be announced by the end of this year.
On the policy of temporary immigrants, especially international students, government did not make a very clear statement. But from last week`s citizen minister`s response to Bill Shorten, this piece of cheese for international students is untouchable.
And Australia`s international student groups have repeatedly warned that international education is vital to Australia, and that international education is at stake and loss with the Australian economy.
If you think, any proposal that harms the interests of foreign students will not be so easy to pass.
