http://www.lipmanjames.com Migration Law Strategy Education Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/editorial-opinion/ http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/editorial-opinion/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:20:07 +0000 site-admin http://www.lipmanjames.com/?p=1822 In contract law, the implied covenant of ‘good faith’ and ‘fair dealing’ is a general presumption that parties to a contract …
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]]> http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/editorial-opinion/feed/ 0 http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/a-migration-agreement-which-is-no-party%e2%80%a6one-side-simply-neglects-the-%e2%80%98good-faith%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98fair-dealing%e2%80%99-bit/ http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/a-migration-agreement-which-is-no-party%e2%80%a6one-side-simply-neglects-the-%e2%80%98good-faith%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98fair-dealing%e2%80%99-bit/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:36:25 +0000 site-admin http://www.lipmanjames.com/?p=1689 In contract law, the implied covenant of ‘good faith’ and ‘fair dealing’ is a general presumption that parties to a contract will deal with each other honestly, fairly and in good faith so as to not destroy the right of the other party to receive the benefits of the contract.
However, the Commonwealth’s immigration portfolio, DIAC manifestly chose to ignore this fundamental principle when drafting its Labour Agreement framework for the ‘on-hire’ industry and continues to disregard the other ...]]> http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/a-migration-agreement-which-is-no-party%e2%80%a6one-side-simply-neglects-the-%e2%80%98good-faith%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98fair-dealing%e2%80%99-bit/feed/ 0 http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-1/ http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-1/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:35:38 +0000 site-admin http://www.lipmanjames.com/?p=1160 You can’t ignore that a rational immigration strategy is an integral component of economic advancement and a developed population base. Like it or not, immigration is an essential ingredient of population growth, and the one lever the Commonwealth uses to moderate or accelerate overall migration numbers.
According to the Department of Parliamentary Services and the Immigration Department, since 1945, approximately 7 million permanent migrants have settled in Australia. In a population of just 22 million, nearly a quarter of ...]]> http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-1/feed/ 0 http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-2/ http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-2/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:34:51 +0000 site-admin http://www.lipmanjames.com/?p=1157 For temporary skilled migrants, the most commonly used visa to sponsor workers is the 457 temporary business visa introduced by the Howard Government in 1996, designed to provide a circuit breaker for emerging skills shortages.
However, quite unjustly the 457 visa exponentially remains the whipping call of sectional interests in a highly politically-charged environment that is immigration, albeit 457 visa holders currently account for less than 1% of the total number of people employed in Australia.
Since the mid 1990s, ...]]> http://www.lipmanjames.com/2011/immigration-editorial-2/feed/ 0