Two engineers arrive in Australia on the same visa, in the same month, sponsored by the same employer. One takes the Sydney role and one takes the Canberra role. Each enrols a child in Year 3 at the local government school. The Sydney family pays $6,400 a year. The Canberra family pays $11,100 a year. […]Read More
In 2024-25, 23,015 people holding Indian nationality became Australian citizens. India was the second largest source country after New Zealand, out of more than 190 nationalities represented. Every one of those 23,015 people has to give up their Indian citizenship, because India does not permit holding both. And every one of them who wants to […]Read More
An Indian teacher can satisfy the Department of Home Affairs that her English is good enough for a skilled visa by sitting the Pearson Test of English. She can do it at a centre in Hyderabad, get her result in about two days, and lodge her application. Then she reaches the Australian Institute for Teaching […]Read More
India sends more nurses to Australia than any other country. It has done since 2021, when it passed the United Kingdom. Australia has opened a fast track for nursing registration which, when it was announced in January 2025, was reported to make registration six to 12 months faster. Seven jurisdictions across six countries were named […]Read More
The Australia migration debate is usually conducted at national scale: targets, visa numbers and annual population growth. But migration does not happen in spreadsheets. It happens in suburbs. Few places show that more clearly than Melbourne’s west, where some of Australia’s fastest-growing communities are also home to large populations with roots in India and across […]Read More
National “March for Australia” rallies returned to Australian capital cities on Sunday, 30 August, almost exactly one year after the movement first brought thousands of anti-immigration protesters onto streets across the country. This time, however, the message presented to the public was different. Rather than putting “mass immigration” at the centre of its campaign, March […]Read More
A major overhaul of Australia’s migration system that was expected to be announced in early August was delayed, and one proposal that emerged from the government’s deliberations could have significant consequences for thousands of temporary migrants, including Indian nationals. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke had been scheduled to address the National Press Club on 6 […]Read More
Australia’s migration regulator has sanctioned three registered migration agents after finding they allowed unregistered people to provide immigration assistance using their professional registration numbers, exposing a practice authorities describe as “front agent” activity. The action by the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA) includes one cancellation and two suspensions. In the most extensive […]Read More
An offshore Indian student who lodged a Subclass 500 application in early 2025 may have found that the speed of the decision had little to do with the strength of their own file. It turned instead on a number attached to the university or college named on the form, and on how close that provider […]Read More
Bijoy Paul had come to Sydney from Bangladesh in 2016 to study for a master’s degree. On a night in late November 2020, the 27-year-old was delivering food for Uber Eats in the suburb of Rockdale when he was struck by a car and killed. He was the fourth food delivery rider to die on […]Read More
