Immigration

In October 2024, the Canadian government announced that it would be acting to further slash migration levels into their corner of the cold north.

Immigration influencer Abul Rizvi often rudely abuses people on Twitter (X), only to end up with egg on his face (for example, see here, here, here, and here).

I noted last week how Australia’s immigration system is overwhelmingly unskilled.

One positive recent reform undertaken by the Albanese government to Australia’s migration system was allocating far more permanent skilled places to employer-sponsored visas at the expense of regional visas.

This week’s official quarterly population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirmed that net overseas migration (NOM) continues to run hot under the Albanese Labor government.

Immigration lies have spread like wildfire among federal Labor MPs.

As accounting tricks go, it’s a howler.

Over the weekend, Immigration Minister Tony Burke was interviewed by Sky News, where he boasted that “we’ve already got (immigration numbers) down 45% from where they were, and as the budget papers make clear, we continue to get them lower”.

Net overseas migration (NOM) has routinely exceeded the Albanese government’s forecasts since coming to office in mid-2022.

Under Australian immigration rules, both international students and graduate visa holders can bring family members with them.

Canada’s newly declared recession has exposed how heavily the country’s headline GDP growth relied on record‑high immigration, with Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledging that reducing immigration contributed to the downturn, according to the National Post.

Amid the rise of One Nation to the top of the list for the primary vote, according to the most recent aggregate polling data, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to continue reducing migration over the years ahead.

Australia’s immigration system is broken.

Immigration influencer Abul Rizvi often rudely abuses people on Twitter (X), only to end up with egg on his face.

For over 15 years, the people of Britain have been promised lower migration, and time after time, the British people have gone to the polls and voted for just that.

By Stephen Saunders While Anthony Albanese crush-loads ethnic immigration at unprecedented levels to help Labor win, the Budget has highlighted Samaras as a crucial analyst of this faux democracy.

Following a strategic review of the student visa program in 2011 (the “Knight Review”), the Gillard Labor government significantly enhanced employment rights for graduate (485) visas in 2013.

As the political debate surrounding the right level of migration into Australia enters its latest chapter, the now increasingly prevalent claim that “net overseas migration can’t be controlled” is once again being trotted out.

A migrant remittance is simply money that a migrant worker earns in one country and sends to people in their home country.