The federal government has announced a major overhaul of the permanent residency skilled migration program and scrapped the current eligibility list of more than 100 occupations.
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Thousands of workers across the country rallied on April 28, including more that 15,000 in Melbourne. The rallies protested the Rudd governments maintenance of the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), which was established by the previous government of John Howard.
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Widely held community and union concerns about the exploitation of 457 visa temporary migrant workers have been confirmed by a report released on November 14.