The 2018 budget is like three mountains for new immigrants and potential immigrants for years to come.
The so-called three mountains, aimed at refugees, new immigrants and foreign-trained doctors eager to emigrate to Australia, have made Australia a place of great pressure on these three categories of foreigners.
The central ideas of the three mountains are as follows:
Refugees: job help has to wait 13 weeks, a total of six months to get a job search service.
Immigrants: starting July 1, 2018, they will have to wait three years to receive government benefits.
(GP): government, a family physician trained overseas, will reduce the number of visas for family doctors by 200.
Now let`s give a concrete explanation of the oppression of these three policies:
First, the main benefits of the new immigrants can not get all!
Australia`s government has extended the waiting period for migrants` benefits again. Similar measures last year have saved government 1.3 billion, and this year`s second extended waiting period has saved government another 200 million yuan.
As early as last December, the government announced that new immigrants arriving in Australia would wait three years from July to receive some Centrelink benefits, compared with just two years.
It`s not that these people come to Australia or take benefits because they don`t work, and many of them have to live on them because of parenting or injuries.
It will limit the access of new immigrants to the main Centrelink benefits, including, inter alia:
Job search allowance (Newstart), paid parental leave, caregiver allowance (Carers Allowance), family tax concession (Family Tax Benefit).
But refugees who have been confirmed to have fled persecution and received humanitarian visas can still be exempted from waiting time, and their families can also be exempted from waiting time.
The agency said new immigrants would also be exempted if they suffered sudden economic losses as a result of "significant changes in circumstances", including victims of domestic violence.
The measure will give Australia an extra A $one billion five hundred and two million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine over the next five years.
In December, immigrant groups, including the Australian Federation of Minority Communities and the Australian Immigration Council, slammed government`s decision.
They said: "the more difficult it is, the less government help will be reduced, and the new budget will have a serious impact on some of our most vulnerable people, vulnerable families and young children."
Two, the new refugee wants to find a job, wait six months first!
New arrivals will have to wait six months to get help from Centrelink`s full-time job search program to help them focus on learning English and adapt to life in Australia, government announced.
The changes included in the 2018 budget will save 68 million yuan in government over the next four years.
Earlier, government forced refugees to meet with employment officials at Centrelink`s Jobactive Job search Program three months after coming to Australia.
But now, most people have to wait six months to get mandatory, intensive job-hunting help.
But some refugees who already have "good English" will be able to get help from volunteers in six weeks.
Government says keeping refugees waiting for six months before meeting with employment officials can help them focus on the services provided by government when they first arrive, rather than working in black jobs everywhere:
These include 510 hours of free English courses and humanitarian settlement programmes to impart information to refugees about Australian society, including the legal system.
A spokesman for government said many refugees did not understand the large number of services offered by government during their first six months in Australia.
"this measure will improve the sequencing of refugee services. Help refugees focus on problem solving and language skills during the first 26 weeks of their arrival. " The budget document says.
If even the basic language is not right, then how to work in Australia, the promotion of language aid is indeed the few benefits of this plan to treat new immigrants.
Third, it is more difficult for foreign GP to come to Australia.
Many overseas trained doctors want to work in Australia, with high wages and low intensity, allowing a large number of overseas licensed medical practitioners to come to Australia.
The new budget will cut the number of (GP) family doctors trained overseas every year in Australia by 200.
In an effort to limit the "oversupply" of some urban areas, the total number of GP visas granted annually will drop from 2300 to 2100, SBS News reported.
But the government will also "improve visa targeting" by making appropriate adjustments to help doctors in areas where there is a shortage of doctors, who may work in rural areas.
According to the results of government modeling, limiting the total number of GP will save 416 million yuan over the next four years.
This is the largest amount of money saved in the 2018 budget and will be used to fund health policy priorities.
epilogue
The new 2018 Budget concerns everyone living in Australia, and many people in different industries will be affected by the changes in the Budget.
But government`s austerity of new immigrants in an effort to save money has largely made life harder for Chinese Australians.
However, no matter how the future budget will change, Chinese Australians must rely on their own efforts and cannot wait for government relief alone. Only in this way can they live better in Australia.
