While travel restrictions are easing, it's still expected to take several years for Australia's population levels to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia's population levels face a slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic off the back of harsh international travel restrictions and a loss of skilled migrants.
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The increased net overseas migration projection comes as the federal government looks to overseas arrivals to energise economic growth during the COVID-19 recovery.
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The reopening to skilled workers and international students comes after a two-week pause due to concerns around the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
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Skilled migration program in a snapshot, published officially by Department of Home Affairs.
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Australia will allow skilled migrants and students back into the country on December 15 after the emergence of the Omicron variant caused the government to put a two week pause on the reopening plan, which was due to come into effect on December 1.
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Australia looks to migrants to boost country's recovery from COVID-19
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‘Profound anxiety’ for temporary visa holders locked out of Australia despite border reopening
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Queensland will open its borders to fully vaccinated interstate travellers coming from COVID-19 hotspots from December 13 at 1am, four days earlier than originally planned.
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The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) last month began its annual consultations on next financial year’s migration program based on this rather bland and largely unhelpful document.
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Border closures are nothing new in the age of COVID-19, but the emergence of the Omicron variant has seen a halt to the planned easing of travel restrictions in Australia.
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