Yesterday
Government’s $91m tradie plan only ‘modest’ boost for home building
Australia’s target of 1.2 million new homes is a crisis of surging demand and a construction workforce facing its own demographic challenges.
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- Michael Bleby
This Month
Chinese do better than others in student visa crackdown
Nearly every Chinese student who applies for a visa to study at an Australian university gets approved. It’s a different story for others.
- Julie Hare
PM blames DPP, bureaucrats for Perth couple bashing, detainee debacle
The Coalition has accused the government of duck-shoving accountability for its pledge to keep the community safe.
- Phillip Coorey
Foreign students flood appeals tribunal to stay longer
Many student hopefuls who have had their visa application rejected are appealing the decision, often as a means to extend their stay.
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- Julie Hare
Why Indian workers head to war zones, from Israel to Russia
The promise of well-paid jobs is too strong a lure to resist, despite the lack of protection from their home government and those they work under.
- Swetasree Ghosh Roy
April
Australia named top destination in the world for expats
Australia has been named the No.1 destination in the world for professionals seeking to relocate internationally.
- Euan Black
Blaming students for housing crisis ‘simplistic’, universities say
A new report finds that conflating international students with the housing shortage is opportunistic and could have profound ramifications on the economy.
- Julie Hare
Albanese tries to shift blame on alleged attack by freed detainee
Labor is under fresh pressure over its management of immigration detainees set free by the High Court after the alleged bashing of a Perth grandmother.
- Andrew Tillett
Government baulks at hard caps on foreign student numbers
The Albanese government is shying away from a Canadian-style hard cap on foreign student numbers and will opt for more nuanced measures to control migration.
- Phillip Coorey and Julie Hare
Steep rise in student visa rejections ‘scaring applicants away’
News of the federal government’s clampdown on student visas is spreading far and wide and the US is becoming the destination of choice.
- Julie Hare
Mass lay-offs at regional uni as international enrolments slump 90pc
Federation University in Victoria could be the canary in the coal mine as its international student enrolments dive.
- Julie Hare
Ryanair CEO would ‘happily’ offer flights deporting people to Rwanda
Michael O’Leary shrugged off warnings from the United Nations, which said airlines facilitating the removals could be complicit in violating international law.
- Kate Duffy and Charlotte Ryan
UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda in ‘game-changer’ law
The law finally passed parliament after weeks of delay, and Rishi Sunak hopes the move will lift his waning popularity before the national elections.
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- Sarah Young, Elizabeth Piper and Alistair Smout
Labor ‘determined’ to halve record post pandemic immigration
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said multiculturalism needs to be carefully nurtured.
- Tom McIlroy
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
- Analysis
- Inflation
Why the war on US inflation is far from over
Rent hikes are playing an increasingly large role in American price rises. That’s a political headache that President Biden does not need heading to the election.
- Matthew Cranston
- Exclusive
- International students
Plan to slug international students with big increase in visa fees
Sensitive about high migration numbers, the Albanese government is set to massively increase fees for student visa applications.
- Julie Hare
Trump’s Fed chairman option opposes rate cuts this year
Kevin Hassett is a frontrunner to become Federal Reserve chairman if Donald Trump is elected. He says inflation remains sticky and isn’t being measured properly.
- Matthew Cranston
‘A mishmash’: backpackers not equal under visa rules
Different regulations can apply to countries even from the same continent when it comes to language requirements.
- Julie Hare
Treasurer must act on PwC
Readers’ letters on the PwC scandal and trust in the accounting profession; the rights of deportees; the manufacturing of solar panels in Australia; and the art of writing letters.