Skill migration is the best immigration policy strategy because it contributes to the strong growth of Australia’s economy. Since 1970s the expansion of Australia´s population and the achievement of skill profile had impacted the economic development of the country. Not only it had allowed people to live in a pacific and harmonious environment, but shaping the nation towards economic prosperity and quick progress in pro an industrialized, secure and pleasant state.
Australia is named as a “country of immigrants” having one in four people born in overseas and with a great advantage: it is still sharp contrast to the chaos, intolerance and hatred that suffered a lot of countries worldwide.
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70 years ago racism and xenophobia were present in the development of migration policies. In 1958 immigration in search of “race harmony” set up the White Policy that consisted in restrict the entry of no-white people to the country. The government used to pay people from the UK and Europe to come over and live in Australia only with the condition of having light eyes and white skin.
Post Second World War the immigration program has been altered in the attempt to get a better economy. After years of non-sense restrictions, the Whitlam government in 1972 ended a period of colour, race, ethnicity, country of birth, skills, gender and creed immigration controls. It leaded then to a low population rates forcing immigration laws to change. In 1996, in response to the new challenges of global political economy and the entrepreneurs’ pressure to have foreign skilled workers to meet new demands, the government introduced different kind of skilled visas, temporary and permanent.
For 2014 the availability for overseas people whose ambition is moving into Australia is broken down into planning levels for each stream of the programme and visa category.
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Every working migrant brings a measure of education, training and experience. This human capital is a clear gain to the economy since the cost of education was paid by the country they come from. Then this worker will probably be more likely to settle in areas where demand for labour is high. Another main benefit is that by enlarging the domestic market and encouraging producers to increase their operations, investments and productivity will be maintained