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"Australia’s major supermarkets will temporarily be able to offer more hours to international student employees to help keep shelves stocked". It will be interesting to see whether this measure is extended to other industries until the situation is normalised.

'Western Australia’s Goldfields region is set to receive an economic boost with the Morrison Government signing a Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder'

'Regional housing markets are surging in some areas as the effects of the Sydney and Melbourne booms trickle down to those outside the major cities'.

'83% increase in citizenship applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 compared with the same period last year'

'if you've got all the states overall saying they want a lot fewer people than we're getting at the moment, will that mean we have a lower migrant intake?'

The South Australia’s Designated Area Migration Agreements are the the Adelaide Technology and Innovation Advancement Agreement and the South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement

'ABF’s Commander of Field Operations ... said the activity was part of Operation Battenrun, an ongoing ABF operation targeting those facilitating illegal foreign work and organised migration fraud'

The giving of a false document to the Department has consequences that might go far beyond a mere refusal based on PIC 4020. It is also a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both

'President Trump's US administration plans new regulation to allow authorities to keep immigrant children in detention for longer than the current 20-day limit'.

'A male detainee at Villawood Detention Centre has died, the Australian Border Force has confirmed'