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Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

He's the Prime Minister we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

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Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Does anybody know anything about immigration law? My girlfriend has a few weeks to get a job or a uni offer before she has to leave the country.

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Serrath posted:

If you apply for Perm Residency, you'll be awarded a bridging visa during your application period. I got the same letter when I graduated, I applied for PR the next day. There was actually a 4 day gap that appeared between the termination of my student visa and the first date of my bridging visa which caused some headache when applying for citizenship (as that has a requirement that you were continuously on a valid visa over X years) but they were able to give me an exception when I explained what happened

If I recall correctly, my bridging visa was approved within a couple of days of paying the PR application fee. That grant a bridging visa regardless of the strength of your PR application so I can imagine a scenario where you submit an application knowing it will fail but knowing you'll be on a bridging visa in the meantime and that it takes 12-18 months to fully process a PR application

E: this info is from 2010 so your mileage may vary

Does the bridging visa grant working rights in the meantime?

E: just saw the edit, yeah laws have changed a bit in the last six years what with various political parties and all. :(

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Anidav posted:

P-p-POLL ALERT

NEWSPOLL: 51-49 lead to Labor
FAIRFAX: 51-49 lead to the Coalition
GALAXY: 50-50

Well that's conclusive.

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

open24hours posted:

Telling the truth never got anyone anywhere.

Yes it has.

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

"Here's what I did, and here's how I could have been stopped"

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Zenithe posted:

I still don't get what this means, other than whoever mentions it is almost exclusively a colossal shithead.

Ironic users are as always excused.

Members of the ReichRight have held for some decades that there is a large conspiracy in western institutions such as universities, schools and the public service to use marxist reasoning to dismantle society, as though this were a deliberate and organised effort rather than the natural tendency of large populations of diverse background to want to remove specific legal and economic markers that serve to create a "favoured group" compared to the rest. In Australia for example, that favoured group would be anybody that is white, male and naturally born here, and usually old, because analysing the social elements that favour them over all other groups and then using this to influence policy and education is apparently a bad thing.

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Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

quote:

Two weeks of fierce campaigning have failed to shift voters with a new poll showing the major parties evenly matched and the July 2 election still too close to call.

And while the decline in Malcolm Turnbull's personal ratings has stopped, Bill Shorten continues to improve, recording his best figures in 11 months. He has further closed the gap on Mr Turnbull as preferred prime minister.

With one quarter of the election campaign over, the latest Fairfax/Ipsos poll shows the Coalition leading Labor by 51 per cent to 49 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis, which is no change to the last poll taken at the start of the campaign.

This 51-49 result is based on how preferences flowed at the 2013 election. If it were repeated on election day, and the swing was uniform the Coalition would lose up to seven seats, leaving it with a seven-seat majority.

When those polled were asked who they would preference this time, the major parties were tied at 50 per cent each and that on election day could deliver a hung Parliament.
Most voters believe Coalition will win

Despite the even standing of the parties, most voters still believe the Coalition will win, which is a strong indicator this close to an election.

The poll finds 57 per cent believe the Coalition will win, an increase of four points since the campaign began, while just 20 per cent believe Labor will win, a drop of four points.

The Fairfax/Ipsos poll of 1497 voters was taken from Tuesday night until Thursday night this week. It follows the first week in which Labor campaigned on education and the government sold its budget, primarily the company tax cuts.

This week was dominated by Labor releasing its biggest policy so far – $2.4 billion to lift the freeze on Medicare payments to doctors to keep the cost to patients down – while the government shifted its focus to its core strength of asylum seekers. Labor also had problems with frontbencher David Feeney not declaring a $2 million investment property.

But there was little movement, suggesting voters have yet to engage or are yet to be swayed.

The Coalition's primary vote remained relatively unchanged, falling one percentage point to 43 per cent, while Labor's rose one point to 34 per cent.

Despite an aggressive start by the Greens, in which they wedged the ALP over penalty rates and made high-profile incursions into four vulnerable Labor seats – Batman, Wills, Grayndler and Sydney – the minor party's primary vote stayed unchanged at a relatively healthy 14 per cent.
PM's approval slide (mostly) came to a halt

In a relief for the Coalition, the decline in the personal standing of the Prime Minister came to a halt.

Mr Turnbull's approval rating, which peaked at 69 per cent in November last year, stayed steady at 48 per cent, while his disapproval rating has fallen two points since the start of the campaign to 38 per cent.

Mr Shorten's ratings are the best since June last year. His approval rating rose two points to 40 per cent and his disapproval rating fell three points to 46 per cent.

In terms of preferred prime minister, Mr Turnbull has fallen another four points to 47 per cent while Mr Shorten has lifted a point to 30 per cent.

A Seven News/Reachtel poll published on Friday night also had the major parties locked at 50 per cent each.

The 57 per cent who believe the Coalition will win reflects the odds in the betting markets.

To form government in its own right, a party needs a minimum 76 seats. The Coalition starts with a notional 89 seats and Labor with a notional count of 57 seats.

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