Inside Story contributing editor Peter Mares is an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism and a moderator at Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text, 2018), Not Quite Australian: How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation (Text, 2016) and Borderline (UNSW Press 2001), an analysis of Australia’s refugee policies.
National affairs
A blockage in the skilled migration pipeline
Peter Mares
3 November 2009
A dramatic rule change has left many would-be migrants in limbo. Peter Mares reports on the indefinite delays facing tens of thousands of applicants for permanent residency
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