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	<description>What You Need to Know About Australian Immigration.</description>
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		<title>Iranian Sheikh Facing Impending Deportation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace-making sheikh on verge of deportation 
Religious and community leaders in Sydney are rallying behind an Iranian sheikh who will be deported from Australia in a fortnight.

Sheikh Mansour Leghaei has lived in Australia for the past 16 years but was prevented from gaining a permanent visa after being declared a security threat by intelligence agency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/immigration-compliance/iranian-sheikh-facing-impending-deportation/</link>
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		<title>A Fifth of Pivate Colleges Are &#8216;Visa Factories&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One-fifth of private colleges are visa factories &#8211; Baird
About a fifth of private colleges aim to give international students a visa, not an education, the author of a new report into the $17 billion sector says.

Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard asked former Liberal MP Bruce Baird to review Australia&#8217;s third largest export industry in August.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/visas-residence/pivate-colleges-visa-factories/</link>
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		<title>Union Blasts Gov&#8217;t Over Foreign Worker Policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Union attacks Labor over foreign workers
The Federal Government has rejected claims it is allowing employers to hire foreign workers without first looking for local labour.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) says the 457 visa scheme used to require employers to test the local labour market before they could resort to signing on foreign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/living-in-australia/union-blasts-govt-foreign-worker-policies/</link>
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		<title>Couple In Immigration Limbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bethanga man and his European-born wife say they have been left in limbo by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
Ian Bowden has waited nine months for his wife, Liudmila, to have her permanent residency visa processed, with no indication of how much longer it may take.

The Belarus woman has lived in Australia since 2007 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/visas-residence/couple-immigration-limbo/</link>
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		<title>Greens Want Immigration Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Immigration should be cut to keep Australia&#8217;s population sustainable, the Australian Greens say.
Greens leader Bob Brown said most people did not support the federal government&#8217;s plan to boost population from 22 to 36 million by 2050.

&#8216;Most people think our lifestyle is good, but some of the bigger cities are bursting at the seams,&#8217; Senator Brown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/living-in-australia/green-party-seeks-sustainable-immigration-levels/</link>
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		<title>Migrants With HIV, Cancer Allowed to Settle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chronically ill foreign workers and their families, including those with HIV-AIDS, will be allowed to settle in Australia for the first time as the Immigration Department loosens its stringent health rules to alleviate the skills shortage. 

The department is widening a loophole that lets it waive the health requirement for some sick dependants of Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/immigration-compliance/govt-relax-rules-chronically-ill-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>The Population Debate: Can Australia Handle It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, we are in the middle of the biggest population boom Australia has ever seen.
The numbers are staggering. Australia will house 35 million people by 2050. Our population is racing ahead at a faster rate than the US, Britain, and even many developing countries.

Currently, about 443,000 people are added to our population every year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/living-in-australia/population-debate-australia-handle/</link>
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		<title>So Can We Still Feed Them Now They&#8217;re 64?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Beatles are set to replace Glenn Miller in retirement homes. Australia&#8217;s first wave of baby boomers &#8211; those born from 1946 &#8211; become eligible for the pension from next week.
Official projections suggest up to 107,000 baby boomer women will reach the female pension age of 64 next year. A year later, 100,000 baby boomer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/living-in-australia/feed-64/</link>
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		<title>Senior Opposition Leader Calls for Immigration Reduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrews call for debate on slashing immigration
Senior Opposition frontbencher Kevin Andrews has called for a debate on slashing Australia&#8217;s immigration from 180,000 people a year to a &#8216;&#8217;starting point&#8221; of just 35,000.

In his first interview since returning to the shadow cabinet as spokesman on families and community affairs, the former immigration minister questioned the &#8221;blithe&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.australian-immigration-lawyer.com/visa/living-in-australia/senior-opposition-leader-calls-immigration-reduction/</link>
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