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Australia has experienced a massive increase in net overseas migration since the beginning of the mining investment boom in 2003. The Australian Commonwealth Government has dominated the policy changes facilitating this increase. Its focus has been on satisfying employer demands for more workers. It has done this by increasingly outsourcing the selection of skilled migrants to employers. It has opened up both the main permanent entry visa and temporary entry visa subclasses to employer sponsorship. The Australian States have been given a minor role as sponsors of skilled migrants for permanent entry, but only under the strict supervision of the Commonwealth.
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Birrell, B. (2014). Migration: The Australian Experience. In: Baglay, S., Nakache, D. (eds) Immigration Regulation in Federal States. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8604-1_7
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