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📙 Daily Activity Report: 18 Sep 2026
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DHA Media Release: Migration reform to end rorts and bring in the skills Australia needs for a strong economy
The Albanese Labor Government has spent the past four years delivering a more orderly, fair, and targeted migration system, while also getting Net Overseas Migration down by 47 per cent. Our focus is on attracting the skills Australia needs, supporting economic growth and productivity, and ensuring migration settings work for Australian workers and communities. Today’s Net Overseas Migration data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show our sensible and measured approach is working – with NOM falling to 292,000, down 47 per cent from the post-Covid peak in 2023. Today we are outlining the next stage of migration policies, and they are designed to deliver the Net Overseas Migration forecasts in the Budget of 245,000 in this financial year and 225,000 in 2027/28. Australia welcomes people who make a genuine contribution to our country. Australia does not support people who seek to rort or defraud the system. We’re making changes to give us more control over who arrives, who stays and who leaves.
We will do this by:
- Strengthening compliance measures to ensure people without valid visas leave the country.
- Updating Ministerial Direction 119 to ensure the skilled migration program supports priority processing for a range of key sectors, including healthcare, construction, education, law enforcement, defence, resources, agriculture, aquaculture and fishing.
- Improving the integrity of student visas by stopping visa hopping and restricting secondary applicants on most student visas
- Cracking down on rogue migration agents who knowingly support visa applications without merit Introducing a No Further Stay condition to all visitor visas to ensure they are only used by genuine visitors and not as a pathway to extending a stay in Australia.
- Updating Ministerial Direction 110 to combat hate and criminal behaviour by:
- better protecting children who are victims of crime
- better protecting victims of domestic and family violence, and
- reflecting modern Australia’s commitment to stamping out hatred.
- Changing the Working Holiday Maker Program to introduce a ballot system for years two and three where there will be a regional work requirement in support of regional Australia. The government will also stabilise processing times for Working Holiday Maker applications to three months.
We will continue to be strong on borders and maintain the integrity of our migration system, while treating people with the fairness and decency that Australians expect.
Quotes Attributable to Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke MP “The government supports immigration but is opposed to anyone rorting the immigration system. “Almost everyone who comes to Australia is a good guest in our country. These reforms are to ensure that our migration system can be better targeted to the current needs of Australia.
More information on Minister's speech here
📙 Daily Activity Report: 17 Sep 2026
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I sent an email to Joint Standing Committee on Migration back in July pointing out the lengthy processing times for the subclass 491 offshore applicants in particular and offshore applicants in general: I have received the response as under: Dear ____,
Thank you for contacting the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Migration.
The Committee recognises the challenges faced by skilled visa applicants and the impacts of long visa processing times.
The Committee has noted the matters raised in your correspondence and it may be used to inform the Committee’s views in its current inquiry into the value of skilled migration to Australia. Please be aware that the Committee is unable to assist with or inquire into individual cases.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Migration/Skilledmigration
You can also contact the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Hon. Tony Burke MP, via the online webform at https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-and-support/departmental-forms/online-forms/contact-the-minister.
Regards,
Adrian
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