Reform of Subclass 457 VISA Schemel

Migration Amendment (Sponsorship Obligations) Bill 2007.

Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Temporary Visas…Permanent Benefits (August 2007), available via <aph.gov.au/house/committee/mig/457visas/report.htm> at 3 June 2008 (hereinafter JSCOM Report).

Visa Subclass 457 External Reference Group, Final Report to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (April 2008), <minister.immi.gov.au/media/media-releases/2008/erg-final-report-april-2008.pdf> at 3 June 2008.

‘Govt to Review 457 Visa Program’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 14 April 2008.

‘IR Expert to Oversee Temporary Skilled Migration Review’, (Press Release, 14 April 2008), <minister.immi.gov.au/media/media-releases/2008/ce08035.htm> at 3 June 2008.

Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) Schedule 2, subcl 457.223(1)–(10).

Committee of Inquiry into the Temporary Entry of Business People and Highly Skilled Specialists, Business Temporary Entry – Future Directions (1995). See also, Crock Mary , ‘Contract or Compact: Skilled Migration and the Dictates of Politics and Ideology’ (2002) 16 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 133, 141–144.

Kinnaird Bob , ‘Current Issues in the Skilled Temporary Subclass 457 Visa’ (2006) 14(2) People and Place 49, 50.

See, JSCOM Report, above n 2, 17.

Khoo Siew-Ean , ‘A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia’ (2007) 41(2) International Migration Review 480, 484.

See, eg, Moore Matthew and Knox Malcolm , ‘Foreign Workers ‘Enslaved”, The Age (Melbourne) 28 August 2007.

See, eg, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission No 39 to the JSCOM, 18–19. Submissions to the JSCOM, <aph.gov.au/house/committee/mig/457visas/subs.htm> at 3 June 2008.

National Farmers Federation, Submission No 22 to the JSCOM, 3–5; Restaurant and Catering Australia, Submission No 50 to the JSCOM, 16; Migration Institute of Australia, Submission No 9 to the JSCOM, 12.

JSCOM Report, above n 2, 37–40.

See, Australian Medical Association, Submission No 43 to the JSCOM, 2; Productivity Commission, Research Report: Australia's Health Workforce (22 December 2005) 127–129.

Council of Australian Governments' Meeting, 26 March 2008: Health and Ageing, <coag.gov.au/meetings/260308/index.htm#health> at 3 June 2008.

Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Temporary Skilled Migration: A New Form of Indentured Servitude, 4, (July 2006), <backontrack.asn.au/files/skilled-migration-0706.pdf> at 3 June 2008.

Procedures Advice Manual 3, Sch2Visa457.25.4.

Chan Patrick , ‘WorkChoices for Migration Law? Assessing the New Era of Skilled Migration’ (2005) 28 Immigration Review [460].

Kinnaird Bob , ‘The Impact of the Skilled Immigration Program on Domestic Opportunity in Information Technology’ (2005) 13(4) People and Place 67.

Australian Meat Industry Council, Submission No 26 to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration.

Australian Mines and Metals Association, Submission No 30 to the JSCOM, 18.

Khoo Siew-Ean , ‘Temporary Skilled Migration to Australia: Employers' Perspectives’ (2007) 45(4) International Migration 175, 193–194.

JSCOM Report, above n 2, 22 [1.61].

‘Migration Advisory Committee Consultation Launched’ (Press Release, 29 November 2006), <press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/Migration-advisory?version=1> at 2 June 2008.

Ibid.

The Command Paper, A Points-Based System: Making Migration Work for Britain (Cm 6741, March 2006), at [91], <homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/command-points-based-migration> at 2 June 2008).

Migration Advisory Committee, Identifying Skilled Occupations Where Migration Can Sensibly Help to Fill Labour Shortages: Methods of Investigation and Next Steps for the Committee's First Shortage Occupation List (February 2008), <ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/workingwithus/mac/macreports/> at 2 June 2008.

Devine Laura , ‘Is the New Highly Skilled Migrant Programme “Fit for Purpose”? If No, the Government's Proposed Points Based Immigration System is Fundamentally Flawed’ (2007) 21(2) Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law 90.

Peacock Louisa , ‘Points-based Migration System Makes Work for Employers’, Personnel Today (2 June 2008), <personneltoday.com> at 2 June 2008.

O'Donnell Anthony and Mitchell Richard , ‘Immigrant Labour in Australia: The Regulatory Framework’ (2001) 14 Australian Journal of Labour Law 1, 21.

Australian Computer Society, 2007 Australian Computer Society Remuneration Survey Summary Report (2007), <apesma.asn.au/surveys/acs/summary/acs_2007_summary_report.pdf> at 2 June 2008.

Birrell Bob , Brain Drain, Brain Gain: Accessing the Required Skills (February 2006), 35, <skillinitiative.gov.au/brain_drain.pdf> at 2 June 2008.

Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) reg 2.25A.

Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 137J; Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth), Schedule 8, item 8202.

For the ‘capture’ theory in regulation, see, eg, Makkai Toni and Braithwaite John , ‘In and Out of the Revolving Door: Making Sense of Regulatory Capture’ (1992) 12 Journal of Public Policy 61.

JSCOM Report, above n 2, 17–18; Kinnaird Bob , ‘Temporary-Entry Migration: Balancing Corporate Rights and Australian Work Opportunities’ (1996) 4(1) People and Place 55, 57.