Amy Remeikis

September 17, 2026

On visa hopping

Tony Burke: The visa hopping problem for students comes at the third area, which is not the extension or transfer, but what we call progression. Someone…

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Changes to student visas

Tony Burke: The next part of who stays are our changes to student visas themselves. For student visas, there are three times that a student once…

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No further stay provisions for visitor visas

Tony Burke: We’ll be attaching to visitor visas a “no further stay” provision. Obviously, you can’t do a no further stay with respect to a protection…

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Who can stay

Tony Burke: The next issue is who stays here. Now, while we will be going back to the pace of processing for working holiday-makers that…

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Homes growing faster than population

Matt Grudnoff Tony Burke has said that immigration has not caused the housing crisis. He says that if you go back to…

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Part four: family visas for students

Tony Burke: The next change on who arrives is the change with respect to student visas and graduate visas. If you’re an Australian citizen and…

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Part three: changing up working holiday agreements

Tony Burke: Next, in terms of working holiday-maker processing, there are some things that I announce further down with respect to working holiday makers that curtail some…

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Part two: priority visas

Tony Burke: The next thing with respect to who arrives are two things that we’re doing that will help speed up some of the processing…

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How they want to do it – part one

Tony Burke: The first part of dealing with who arrives is something that was referred to in the Productivity Roundtable straight after the election, which was…

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Labor policy – ‘Who arrives, who stays and who leaves’

Tony Burke says the government decided all of this in February: So, dealing with those as the problems, I then come to the reforms….

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