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New immigration policy blueprint

Australia to lure more IT professionals
SYDNEY, July 19 : Temporary migrants with skills to suit a hi-tech economy will outnumber traditional permanent settlers to Australia under plans unveiled today in a proposed new Immigration policy blueprint, reports AFP.
Young Asian professionals with financial or information technology skills arc expected to be among the best suited to meet Canberra's new Immigration programmes. Immigration Minister Paul Ruddock said.
In an article redefining the official attitude to immigration for a new millennium. Ruddock said Australia must leave behind the 1950s "anachronistic and confining arguments" of "populate or perish."
Ruddock said Australia had now to adopt a shrewder approach to attracting the people it wants, in competition with other countries which had never previously tried to attract Immigrants.
"We have to be far more clever with our approach (o immigration in order to attract people with the
skills and qualities that will benefit tills country." he said in the article written for Options magazine.
"We can't afford to return to the days where permanent resettlement numbers were the end goal, and skilled migrants and economic advancement were unregarded concepts."
Business leaders and representatives of migrant groups arc currently Involved in an Immigration department review of temporary visa arrangements and findings are expected within the next few months.
A spokesman for Ruddock said long-term temporary migrants would come from countries with a wealth of personnel skilled tn the necessary areas.
"Asia has a fairly extensive background in information technology," he said. "Certainly India is an emerging giant in that area, and people from the more traditional financial and technology centres such as Hong Kong and Singapore arc likely arrivals."
Last year. 28 percent of all
16.334 temporary long- term visas were issued to people from Southeast Asia.
Temporary long-term visas are valid from between two to three years, and can be extended.
Findings from the review, which Includes a discussion paper and public consultation period, are expected to be released within the next few months, said the spokesman.
Ruddock said the dot com Industry and globalisation of labour meant Australia must adapt immigration policies to Its maximum advantage In the new economic environment.
Ruddock, who Is facing renewed criticism over Canberra's hardline attitude to illegal Immigrants. thousands of whom are currently in detention centres, gave no hint of any intent to relax the official view that they are queue Jumpers with few entitlements.
Countries not traditionally viewed as migrant nations were now luring skilled people, and Australia had to compete by offer-
ing packages to the right candidates. he said.
The new "Skill Stream." brought in 3.000 temporary visa arrivals during the second half of last year.
The minister s spokesman said the government was aware of the need for a balance between luring a streamlined system for those with beneficial skills and in ensuring it did not take Jobs away from Australians.
Long-term temporary’ entries are expected to exceed 50 per cent of Australia's net immigration 'his year, after reaching 49.3 percent last year. According to departmental statistics, the figure was less than 20 percent under a Labour government six years ago and only 4.4 percent tn 1991.
Ruddock said the result of the new policies would allow sponsoring companies to hold on to the skilled migrants they attract, and allow employers and employees to try out a relationship" without permanent commitment.