Some students able to work more than 40 hrs / fortnight
"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.
‘Coroner to investigate refugee self-immolation death’
'An inquest has been announced into the 2016 death of 23-year-old Omid Masoumali'.
‘Peter Dutton attacks Roman Quaedvlieg…’
'Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has hit back at the former Australian Border Force (ABF) commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg, telling Parliament he was "discredited and disgraced".
Increased flexibility for international students to support supermarkets
The Federal government has recently announced as follows: "Today the Morrison Government has announced that supermarkets in States and Territories subject to COVID-19 lockdowns...
‘An Australian passport is NOT evidence of a person’s citizenship’
'An Australian passport is not evidence of a person’s citizenship,” said the department, which noted passports were issued to non-citizens prior to a law change in 2005'
“Daughters of Tamil family in detention ‘suffering…”
'Australia's Tamil Refugee Council say detention is playing on the health of a family facing deportation to Sri Lanka'.
Canadian-style migration in NSW
'NSW Premier... will today continue her mission to turn immigration into a state issue, announcing a six-point plan to address the state's "ballooning population"'
Western Australia: new DAMA
'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'
‘Asylum seeker’s family to sue over death’
'The family of a young Iraqi father who died after self-harming at an WA immigration detention centre plan to take legal action against the Commonwealth'.
‘Dutton asked Quaedvlieg to help his mate…’
'Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton pressed then Customs chief Roman Quaedvlieg to help two Queensland policemen get jobs in the new Border Force agency ...'




















