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INTRODUCTION There have been growing concerns and discontent from migration agents and the Afghan community about the poor decision making from Dubai – especially with family related visasand the seemingly impossible demands the DIAC staff in Dubai are making for documents from people who have fled civil war and are currently living in danger in countries of first asylum. Several meetings have been held between migration agents who are dealing with the Afghan caseload and the Australian Consulate General (visa section) in Dubai. The agents ...

A UN watchdog has called on Australia to release 46 refugees being held in indefinite detention, labelling it cruel and arbitrary. The UN Human Rights Committee has slammed Australia's treatment of the group, saying the country broke global human rights rules by denying the group a chance to challenge their detention. In a review of complaints from the refugees - 42 Sri Lankan Tamils, three Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and a Kuwaiti - the committee said the detention was arbitrary and broke the International Covenant on Civil and ...

The ABC has revealed that thousands of Indian students, skilled workers and 457 visa holders have been admitted to Australia on dodgy travel and work documents. Briefings prepared by the Immigration Department and obtained by the ABC's Fact Check Unit under Freedom of Information show out-of-control, large-scale fraud of the visa system. The internal audits show fraud rates approaching 50 per cent, and an Immigration Department struggling to properly identify people who are entering the country. "Identity fraud is a significant risk in the Indian caseload given ...

In Port Lincoln you can swim with tuna, snorkel with sea-lions - and soon you might be able to sleep with great white sharks. Port Lincoln Council has voted to support a world-first plan by entrepreneur Travis Nottle for a giant $40 million floating aquarium to hold the giant killers for months at a time. An undersea viewing area would give visitors a fish-eye's view of the giant predators, complete with facilities for a sleepover as sharks cruise by. The massive fish bowl would be located in ...

In Australia, New South Wales charges between $4, 500 and $5, 500 depending on the school year of a child while the Australian Capital Territory charges up to $13, 900 for the final year of high school. In August Western Australian state treasurer Troy Buswell announced as part of his budget that any temporary 457 visa holders would be charged A$4, 000 a year to send each child to state schools. But immigrant families on 457 visa holders earning at or close to the threshold income of $53, ...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 SOUTH Australia's education funding per student is lower than Queensland's and only marginally more than New South Wales.  And data shows our education system is producing students who perform well below the national average in key measures of literacy, numeracy and general development in both primary and secondary schools. As well as below-average test results, SA has more students with a disability, attending remote schools and from poor families than ...

SOUTH Australia would benefit from a multi-billion-dollar windfall that could create hundreds of jobs, if governments embraced a new lucrative nuclear industry, experts say. Adelaide-based researchers have found that building a uranium enrichment plant here could deliver up to $4 billion in construction investment. For the first time, experts have quantified the financial windfall such a program would deliver to the SA economy. They say an enrichment plant would "significantly value add" to our uranium mining. But the University ...

            Outback pilot Trevor Wright says William Creek, on the Oodnadatta Track several hundred kilometres south of the NT/SA border, is more aligned with the Territory lifestyle and a tourism treasure that is ...

EMPLOYING 100 extra professors, creating a birth to year 12 school and introducing three more regional campuses are a part of an ambitious new, five-year action plan for the state's biggest university. University of South Australia Vice-chancellor, Professor David Lloyd, who has held the position for less than seven months, said the new plan - which sought input from 8000 current and past students, staff and the business community online - was "ambitious but achievable". The revolutionary plan aims to make the institution Australia's "university ...