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RT 3.1 - Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration; RT 2.2 - Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development
The Australia Pacific Technical College is a development-cooperation funded vocational training programme operating in Pacific countries. More than 17 000 have graduated from the programme since its inception in 2007, with 83 percent successfully employed. The programme was not designed specifically to promote emigration, but to build skills in islands where local skill basins were insufficient and skilled workers were deployed from developed countries.
The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union comprises a bilateral treaty between Tuvalu and Australia, as well as a commitment articulated in a joint leaders' statement to uplift their broader bilateral partnership. It was signed by Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Natano on 9 November 2023.
The key features of the Falepili Union are:
The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study is the pre-eminent source of information on social cohesion in Australia. Running since 2007 and with surveys of the Australian population conducted annually since 2009, the study provides a rich and long-running set of data on social cohesion, immigration, multiculturalism, migrant settlement and integration and a range of other topical issues.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched a plan to develop a National Anti-Racism Framework. The Framework will be a long-term, central reference point to guide actions on anti-racism by government, NGOs, business, educators, health professionals, police, other justice authorities, civil society, and the community.
The Council represents over 200 Australian organisations and, over the last three decades, has conducted advocacy work on a range of policy issues, with a strong focus on campaigning against the conditions of Australiaís offshore migrant processing system in Nauru and Manus Island.
The Australian Government is committed to supporting migrants to settle in regional areas. The Australian Government has announced changes to its immigration program to strengthen its economy and boost its regional areas. The changes are:
Spain, New Zealand and Australia have expanded the use of pre-existing temporary work quotas to target migrants from disaster-affected areas and areas facing adverse impacts of climate change
Some private insurance providers in Australia offer provisions especially for migrants to facilitate insurance coverage given their circumstances; for instance removal of waiting periods for hospital and pre-existing conditions coverage.
Supporting refugee farming initiatives in rural and regional Australia: This initiative evolved spontaneously from research led by University of Wollongong and University of Melbourne academics in partnership with a community-based food cooperative Food Next Door. The researchers were able to connect Burundi refugees and former refugees, who are ‘landless farmers’, with donated farmland and with Food Next Door and the Sunraysia Burundian Garden to grow culturally important crops.
In May 2010, a joint ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand task force developed ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF) as the mechanism to benchmark national qualifications frameworks into mutually comparable regional standards.