Australian immigration minister exempts highly skilled workers from LMT
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17:27 26/11/2013
Australia's Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Michaelia Cash, has announced that employers recruiting for 'highly skilled occupations' will be exempted from the Labour...
UK shadow immigration minister drops Next, Tesco claims
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Australian government criticised for misleading immigration figures
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Australia sends first asylum seekers to Manus
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Australia prepares to send first refugees to Nauru
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The Australian government is expected to fly the first planeload of asylum seekers to the Pacific Island of Nauru within 24 hours but there is growing controversy regarding the rights that those...
Australia sends first asylum seekers to Nauru
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On Friday 14th September 2012 the Australian government sent the first group of asylum seekers to Nauru since the offshore asylum seeker processing camp was closed in 2008. 30 Sri Lankan men were...
