As many as 15,865 Indians sought permanent residence in Australia under the skilled migration programme in 2006-2007, making them the second largest group in the category after Britons. The figure seems to belie fears that freed terror suspect Muhammad Haneef's case would deter prospective Indians from making Australia their home.

The Australian Government is concerned that thousands of international visitors who worked in Australia are unwittingly leaving millions of dollars behind when they permanently depart.

The total migration (non-humanitarian) programme for 2006-07 is in the range of 134 000 to 144 000 places. This will comprise 97 500 places in the Skill Stream and 46 000 places in the Family Stream.

The Office for National Statistics figures showed 500 British people were leaving the UK every day to live abroad, with Australia the most popular destination. Spain, France, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa were also popular with Britons leaving their homeland.

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For the financial year 2005-2006, Australian immigration has successfully attracted more than 130,000 people, 8,000 more than the previous year. This year 2007, if things are to go smoothly, Minister for Immigration Amanda Vanstone said the government is targeting 140,000...

What can a person ask for? Whenever she/he wakes up in the morning the first things that blows in his/her face is the enticing sand dunes because of Australia's wind. The beaches that make their day refreshingly throughout their stay.

Australia prides itself with a diverse wildlife: kangaroos, koalas, possums, wallabies, potaroos, dugongs, kookaburras, arowana fishes, Tasmanian tigers, emus, platypus, spiders, scorpions, octopus, wobbegong shark, barracuda, jellyfish, stonefish, and stingrays--the name-dropping can go on forever.

Perhaps one of the most charming things about the the Australian Outback is its stubborn changeability. Even its seemingly rigid mountains of rocks have their way of changing right before your eyes, as if the landscape refuses all human effort to be mapped.