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ASIAN IMMIGRANTS TO BE ATTRACTED BY AUSTRALIA'S NEW ANNOUNCEMENT
On 28th October 2012, the Australian government white paper Australia in the Asian Century was commenced by Julia Gillard Australia's Prime Minister. The white paper puts down a complete chart for Australian development in the next 13 years to see Australia take advantage of its position at the edge of Asia.
A statement from Prime Minister's office said 'in this century, the region in which we live will become home to most of the world's middle class and will be the world's largest producer of goods and services and the largest consumer of them'. 'There are significant opportunities and challenges for all Australians', it continues.
In the meantime Australia's Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, said that Australia planned to attract highly skilled Asian immigrants in order to enhance the economy and he also said 'we need migrants who bring their specialist skills to Australia.'
Mr Bowen also added that seven of the top ten source countries for immigrants to Australia are in Asia and the statistics show that India provided 23% of its immigrants last year to Australia. The other countries in the top ten series are China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Korea and Vietnam. “Nearly 25% of first generation Australians were born in an Asian country and there are 1.5 million Australian citizens who are fluent in an Asian language such as Cantonese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Punjabi, Indonesian, Korean, Tagalog, or Japanese. 'This means that Australia is uniquely placed to strengthen ties with Asian nations,' Mr Bowen said.
As such there was no announcement from Mr Bowen on any increase in targets for immigration from Asian countries but Australia is already occupied in an active immigration programme and the government foresee that more than 2,00,000 people will settle in Australia in the year 2014/15.
The government would also be taking steps to promote more tourism from Asian countries. International students will also be given importance and Australia will take steps to increase the number of overseas students at Australian universities by reforming the student visa assessment process and by improving the standards of education at Australian universities.
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