The recent cut in immigration intake by the government has been a subject of stress for many international students planning to apply for PR, business owner, immigration professionals, some politicians and even academics who do not agree with the policy. Australian professor Peter McDonald states that there will be consequences for the labour market if Australia reduces its migration rate by 30,000.  Peter McDonald a professor at ANU, who advised Wednesday’s COAG meeting, says migration should remain at current levels to meet an impending demand for labour, which will be stoked by the retirement of 10 million baby boomers over the next decade. The demographer says dropping the intake would make no difference to the infrastructure woes plaguing Sydney and Melbourne. His comments have contradicted Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s push to decrease Australia’s permanent migration rate from its current level of 190,000 to 160,000.

The logic above is also supported by the major jump in the invitation last round. Our advice to any students is to find statistic in Australian Bureau of statistic regarding population growth in Australia and apply your knowledge.

ABS -shows that

• one birth every 1 minute and 40 seconds,
• one death every 3 minutes and 16 seconds,
• one person arriving to live in Australia every 57 seconds,
• one Australian resident leaving Australia to live overseas every 1 minute and 49 seconds, leading to
• an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 15 seconds.

Now try to calculate the consequences by taking off the arriving population from the equation.

It is not all gloom and dulls for International Students, future looks rosy for International students along with aspiring migrant with demanded skills.