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hilly said..
How do I qualify to immigrate to Australia?
Prospective applicants must be invited by the Australian Immigration Department to apply for the visa. Applicants wishing to emigrate to Australia on the Skilled Migrant Visa must have an occupation listed on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) or Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL).

Why do people talk in such an indirect way? Do you have a point too?

I just googled this and you as the applicant must submit an expression of interest before you can be 'invited'. You/they are making out as if its a more exclusive process than it really is. It's an application, even if they aren't calling it that. It's not like the government here individually asks people out of the blue if they want a visa.

These skills lists are another can of worms. You might have categories where you really want people but you can't get them. You might have other categories where you want people and get a huge amount applying. Does this lead to a balanced intake of a variety of skills or do they just fill a total quota?

I stopped believing this stuff when I saw that hairdressers were on the skilled list. Surely if you can't get enough people to want to be hairdressers here, something is wrong.

Doctors on the other hand are always in demand, but I think the medical profession has their own requirements on intake. Probably set to ensure that the quality of candidates is high, but possibly also to protect their own industry.

Meh said..

Mark _australia said..
Ok I wanna know why we never needed immigration to fill some jobs decades ago. Smart kids became doctors and stuff. Some of them made coffee or flipped burgers while at uni. Dumb kids dig holes at 14 and never went to uni. We had a full spectrum.
are aussies now too good so we need servants? If we cut immigration greatly and cut welfare would more Aussies go get the service industry jobs? I dunno just musings but it seems weird everything worked well right up to the last 20-30yrs..?

"Between 1949 and 1974, over 100,000 people from 32 countries worked on the Snowy River Scheme, with more than 65% being immigrants."

Net overseas migration in 2024-2025 was 306,000. 2022-2023 was 538,000. 2023-2024 was 429,000.

1.273 million people in 3 years, although some of that was because of Covid delays.

But thats a lot of people to build a Snowy River Scheme. Do we have any super large infrastructure projects at the moment?

I felt sorry for some guy driving an Uber a while back. He explained to me that he came to Australia and got a degree in something computer related and then a PhD. He couldn't find work in Melbourne and moved to Perth, got made redundant and then started driving Uber. It's not easy for these guys, also because of the sheer volume of people they are competing against for the same pool of jobs.

Does anyone think that the Pond will come back after the winter storms rearange everything? Everytime I go past I see it changing and to my optimistic eyes its looking closer to what it has been in the past. I will be curious to see the outcome next summer to see if it has returned to something close to what it was before.

When I went looking I went looking for a policy that would cover me riding a motorbike as well as kiting. I couldn't find one that allowed both. The particular stumbling block was the motorbiking though as some policies cover it if you are legally licensed in that country and others seem to cover you if you are legally licensed in your home country. This is an issue in Vietnam, so it may apply to you, but you don't need to rent a motorbike in My Hoa. You don't need to go anywhere else other than walking up and down the road if you want to.