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Employers can expect to pay higher wages when recruiting talent from overseas, and new rules will crack down on “non-genuine” students and their dodgy education providers, under a long-awaited reset of Australia’s temporary migration regime.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil will today hand down the government’s new, 100-page immigration strategy, following a major review that found the system is “broken” and in need of significant reform.
The new strategy follows a post-lockdown boom in net migration to 510,000 people over the last financial year, which was initially viewed as a reflection of COVID-era demand.
Backdropped by a severe housing shortage, the federal government is now attempting to moderate migrant intake over the long term and predicts new policies will see net migration of 250,000 people in 2025.
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