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Australia and New Zealand Immigration News

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Australia and New Zealand are the current world leaders in reforming their university programs from subsidizing foreign students to recruiting students who pay full fees. This is generating a surplus in the trade of educational services.

• Watch This VideoUpdated 20 September, 2006, by government of Australia.SEE : full listing and further information.
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The Australian Federal Government's plan to tighten citizenship eligibility would dismantle the nation's multicultural society and reintroduce an Australia of the 1950s, according to one of Australia's leading scholars on immigration.

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Australia's policy of encouraging skilled migrants aged 15 to 34 is ensuring more Australian tax payers to support the retired, with this age group now making up more than 70% of skilled immigration to Australia.

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While bitter debate over the use of skilled temporary workers continues in the Australian Parliament, a conservative think tank issued a report arguing against importing Pacific islanders as guest workers for the labour-starved horticultural industry.

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Statistics released during August indicate that potential visitors to New Zealand are being turned away in larger percentages as border controls tighten. During the past year, visa rejections jumped from 9% to 24%, due in large part to a special immigration screening unit that was set up in June 2005.