Immigrants to Australia help keep the country's economy stable.
Immigrants to Australia have been hailed as helping to save Queensland, and indeed Australia, from a dire financial downturn, according to a leading Australian chartered accountant firm.
A report commissioned by PKF chartered accountants found that mining and tourism jobs were being lost in Queensland as domestic migrants were heading to the Northern Territory. However international migration to Australia has peaked in the Gold Coast, with Queensland’s migrant population increasing by 106,700, the second biggest rise within an Australian state.
However the rise in Queensland is small compared to previous years. In fact overall the figures for immigration in Australia are down as the recession bites hard and would-be immigrants put emigration plans on hold.
Nevertheless, overall the immigration figures for Australia look good, pushing the population up to nearly 22 million. And whilst environmentalists and sceptics remain fearful for the country’s ecology, there can be no doubt that Australias resilience to the global recession lies, in part, in its migrant population.
Mike Sheehy, managing director of PKF Gold Coast stated: “Arguably the unsung hero of Australia’s defence against the downturn has been our magnificent population growth.� He went on to state that more people means more consumers which in turn means more jobs.
Mr Sheehy also stated that whilst Queensland may have suffered more of a downturn than the rest of Australia, it would recover and continue to pull in more migrants as, “the rest of the state the pull is more contingent on economic drivers.�
PKF Director Matthew Field agreed with this sentiment adding that businesses should be directing their aims at the migrants as they are; “new Australians who need homes, furnishings, clothes, food, everything to start their new life in this country.�
He claimed that Australia’s immigrants are key to pushing the economy forward and creating more demand and more jobs.
Meanwhile would-be immigrants to Australia are waiting with baited breath for the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to announce its plans for the critical skills list (CSL) and migration occupations in demand list (MODL). After the changes to employer and state sponsored visas were announced last month, those applicants whose visas were already being processed are fervently hoping that their occupations will appear on any revised list.
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2 Responses to “Australia Immigration Hailed as Saviour of Australia”
Comment by PARK,CHANG HYUN — October 9, 2009 @ 3:21 am
Thank you for your immigration news.
I had very impression when I read your news.
I am a KOREA.I am planning to immigrate to Australia.
My type of visa is subclass176 state sponsorship visa.
My visa was holding since priority processing was changed.So,I am very sad.Many people who are same with my case may also be sad.This change is called 923 terror to us.Too many people are falling in depression.
And,they could not sleep well in every night.
They are wounded from Immigration Government.
However,your news make us to have positively thinking.
Therefore,I send you a word-thank you-
Please inform our situation constantly.
Comment by Jack — October 14, 2009 @ 9:35 am
The dream of embracing a life in Australia is really far from that now. I applied under the subclass 175 in June 2008. I have been waiting as many of you. Now it is a dream far from getting true. I am really disappointed. When my job appeared on the csl with its’ apparition on January this year, i hoped for the best and relodged my pets. Then, in May, my job was removed from the csl and now, with the September news, kind of have to wait for 3 years. I do not know if it is worth waiting or i should forget about it all.